The Prince and the Priestess: Novels of Ancient Sumeria Volume 2

Ammon-shur thought that saving the girl and escaping deadly peril in Uruk meant that he would live a safe and happy life in his new home in Ur. With his business prospering, a new daughter just born and everything looking up he is deliriously happy, but he did not reckon with the spread of a deadly new religion that was accompanied by a massive expansion of the slave trade. As slowly worsening domestic troubles lead Ammon to spend more time running caravans to distant cities he runs afoul of slavers and finds that getting cast into the copper mines of Magan from which few return is just the beginning of his troubles.