Two months after the tomb was found empty, Jerusalem has learned to hold its breath. And Marcus is learning that silence has a price.

Marcus Aurelius Cato thought the hardest part was over that once he opened his mind to questions about faith, empire, and truth, the answers would follow. He was wrong.

A new Tribune has arrived in Jerusalem with a single mission: identify and eliminate the growing movement of believers. Investigations are tightening. Names are being collected. And the people Marcus has grown to care about - Miriam the cook, the soldiers who saw what really happened at the tomb, and the quiet network of believers meeting in secret - are now in the crosshairs of Roman authority.

Caught between his father's loyalty to Rome and his own awakening conscience, Marcus faces an impossible choice. Speak up and endanger his family. Stay silent and watch innocent people be destroyed. Every day the space between those two options grows narrower, and the cost of both grows higher.

In a city where truth is the most dangerous thing you can carry, how long can you afford to say nothing?

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