1314 BCE

Kehmeht, most powerful of all the realms of the earth.

Mereyamun, brilliant apprentice to a Royal Sorcerer, has spent his fourteen years immersed in secret lore. But that happy boyhood crashes to an end as Kehmeht faces annihilation.
Now Merey must learn who –or what— is trying to destroy his world.

From the battlefields in the south to the forced-labor camps of the north, Merey puzzles through a chain of strange catastrophes. But what demon, sorcerer, or lord is behind it all? And how does Kehmeht fight back?

Friendships will fail, families will be torn apart.
Insurrection, civil war, and bloodshed will reign.
And a new world will be born.

Forget everything you think you know about the Exodus story. This epic re-imagining, based on ancient oral histories and authentic Hebrew & Aramaic texts, offers a whole other way of looking at the year that changed the world forever.

1313 BCE

It’s been ten months since two elders appeared before the Throne to ask that the Iebiru slaves be sent into the desert. Just for a week. Just to worship some new Power. A Power that no one had ever heard of.

The request was laughable then.

No one is laughing now.

Kehmeht, most powerful of all the realms of the earth, is shaken to its foundations.

Mereyamun, brilliant apprentice to a Royal Sorcerer, has uncovered secret lore that, if true, will mean the end of the world he has known for all his fourteen years. The question is, what must he and his People do to survive into this new world coming at them?

Merey will be caught up in disasters on an unimaginable scale, plots and betrayals, bloody street battles and civil war. Some will be lured to their deaths. Others will slip beyond Merey’s understanding as they make their way into desperate peril and a hope of something better than words can tell.

Y.G. Shoresh began telling stories on the stage, then moved into film & animation, creating “Lights” – the first animated export from Israel to run as a Holiday Special on the NBC Television Network, the ABC Network, and The Disney Channel. YG then founded a start-up that grew to deliver more prime-time animation for broadcast and cable networks than any company in the world.

To create The City of a Great King series YG turned to Hebrew and Aramaic texts unknown to most readers, offering a telling of the Exodus story that is both a gripping epic and surprisingly touching to modern readers.

YG also earned a PhD from the School of Education, New York University, and has taught at several universities, but promises not to let that spoil the thrill of a great story told well.