The book of Esther is a narrative set in the Persian empire and sits in the historical books of the Old Testament; it has 10 chapters in the King James Version.
Esther is anonymous in the biblical tradition. Esther, an anonymous book, tells how a young Jewish woman becomes queen under King Ahasuerus and, with her cousin Mordecai, acts to save the Jewish people from destruction. A well-known passage from this book is Esther 4:14. Read the full book at Esther.