After recovering the Roman Catholic faith of her youth, best-selling novelist Anne Rice has committed to writing about and for Christ. Her most ambitious and courageous book, a novel about the early years of Christ the Lord, is based on the Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship.

The book's power derives from the passion its author brings to the writing and the way in which she summons up the voice, the presence, and the words of Jesus who tells the story.