num_pages: 190
description: Fifteen-year old Rhoda used to a life of luxury in Cyprus rejoins her family in Palestine. There she is appalled at her mother's involvement with a group who worship the new Messiah in secret but without fear. Rhoda is betrothed to the son of a high priest of the Temple and looks forward to escape from her mother's world of zealotry. But during the year of her betrothal she falls in love with David a young Christian and when she witnesses the martyrdom of Stephen she faces the fact that she too has become a believer.
language: English
title: Rhoda of Cyprus
publisher: Macrae Smith