Title: Pilate's Wife
First published: October 24, 2006
Description: A daughter of privilege in the most powerful empire the world has ever known, Claudia has a unique and disturbing "gift": her dreams have an uncanny way of coming true. As a rebellious child seated beside the tyrannical Roman Emperor Tiberius, she first spies the powerful gladiator who will ultimately be her one true passion. Yet it is the ambitious magistrate Pontius Pilate who intrigues the impressionable young woman she becomes, and Claudia finds her way into his arms by means of a mysterious ancient magic. Pilate is her grand destiny, leading her to Judaea and plunging her into a seething cauldron of open rebellion. But following her friend Miriam of Magdala's confession of her ecstatic love for a charismatic religious radical, Claudia begins to experience terrifying visions—horrific premonitions of war, injustice, untold devastation and damnation . . . and the crucifixion of a divine martyr whom she must do everything in her power to save.
Subjects: Novela, Fiction, Governors' spouses, Crucifixion, Esposas de gobernadores, Novela biográfica, Crucifixión, Historical Fiction, Historical fiction, Rome, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Ficción
Places: Palestine, Rome, Palestina, Roma
People: Claudia Procula, Jesus Christ, Pontius Pilate (1st cent), Jesucristo, Poncio Pilatos (Siglo I)
LC classification: PS3613.A39 P5518 2007