A.D. 33: A Novel (A.D., 2)

New York Times bestselling creator Ted Dekker delivers the gripping story of Maviah, a slave who becomes a queen in Arabia, A.D. 33.

They call her the Queen of the Outcasts. Maviah, a woman whose fate was once sealed on her birth by this world-unwanted, illegitimate, female, a slave-subject to the whims of all. But then she met a man named Yeshua who opened her eyes. She found strength in his words, peace from the brutal word around her. On account of what he taught her, she has gathered her own traveling kingdom of outcasts deep in the desert, wielding an authority few have seen. But if her growing power threatens the rulers around her, they got down to crush all she loves, leaving her reeling as a slave over again. She should find Yeshua to save her people, But if she does, she might be horrified to discover that he faces his own death.

Enter a story full of intrigue, heart-wrenching defeat, uncompromising love and staggering victory-one that re-examines the whole lot you thought you knew about the heart of Jesus’s stunning message and the power that follows for many who follow his easily forgotten way.