Biblical / royal epic
Behind Every King
THE WOMEN OF THE ROYAL HOUSE. THE QUEENS HISTORY ALMOST FORGOT.
The fifth series of The Kingdom They Asked For — Michal, Abigail, Ahinoam, Maacah, Bathsheba, Tamar and the women of the royal house.
The Books
READ IN ORDER
Every title in the series, in reading order. Choose how you enter.
The Story
ABOUT THIS SERIES
Kings make decrees. Other people make those decrees possible.
The throne sits at the centre of the kingdom. That does not mean the king is the only person governing it.
Behind Every King enters the rooms behind biblical monarchy—the households, marriages, councils, alliances, servants, advisers and family relationships that history compresses into the reign of a single man.
Here, royal decisions have private origins. A marriage can secure an alliance. A mother can shape succession. An adviser can turn fear into policy. A servant can carry information capable of changing a kingdom. And a woman whose name barely survives in the record may have spent decades living with the consequences of a king's choices.
Rather than presenting monarchy solely through battles and decrees, the series asks who stood behind the men whose names became eras. Who challenged them? Who enabled them? Who loved them? Who feared them? Who protected their children? And who paid for decisions that would later be remembered only as the acts of kings?
Behind Every King is a biblical royal saga about influence without crowns and power that does not always sit upon a throne.
Reader Promise
A women's historical royal-court drama about influence, marriage, motherhood and hidden power. History wrote down the kings. This series turns around and looks at everyone standing behind them.
The Characters
MEET THE PLAYERS
Protagonist
Michal
Saul's daughter, David's first wife. She hides the fugitive and helps him escape through a window, then pays for her love with years given to another man.
Protagonist
Abigail
The discerning and beautiful wife of the surly Nabal. Her quiet wisdom and swift intervention stop David from shedding blood—and her own fate changes the day she chooses loyalty.
Supporting
Bathsheba
The woman at the centre of David's great scandal, whose household shadows the royal court. Mother of Solomon, she endures the consequences of a king's choices.
Protagonist
Tamar
The princess, daughter of David, whose story of courage and grief is told with the dignity and gravity it has always demanded.
Supporting
Saul
The jealous, troubled first king of Israel, father of Michal, whose pursuit of David shapes his daughter's life from its beginning.
Supporting
David
The anointed warrior-king around whom the hidden women of the court turn. His choices become the decrees the women behind him must live with.
Antagonist
Nabal
The harsh, surly rich man of Carmel to whom Abigail is married, whose cruelty and folly push his wise wife toward a destiny of her own.
The World
The Kingdom
A land torn by dynastic tension and royal violence, where the crown is blood and the blood is throne.
Locations
- The Palace
- The Vineyard
- The Battlefield
- The Temple
Factions
- The Crown
- The Prophets
- The People
Artefacts
- The Crown
- The Vineyard
Terminology
- The Crown
- The symbol of royal power, held by blood.