Rachel, a young Jewish girl, is born in Crete in the year 48, during the Roman Empire. She grows up and is nurtured by the spiritual Magres who initiate her into the martial and healing arts. She falls passionately in love, fights, conspires, is sold as a slave, escapes, and is an eyewitness to the writing of the Gospels in Rome in the year 75. The tumultuous 1st century, the most important for humanity, is recorded here through the lives of real historical figures. 

Who was Jesus? Who was Paul? Who actually wrote the Gospels? Was it Paul who laid the foundations of the new religion called "Christianity?" What truth lies behind the most famous story ever told?