Return to Caesarea

Volume 2 in the Leaving Bethany Series

It is five years since Martha, a friend of Jesus, and her family arrived safely in Cyprus and life has become predictable. Until one morning when a familiar face arrives with bad news. A friend is in prison in Caesarea on a charge of murder.

She immediately sails to help him and is faced with the possibility that he is guilty. Can she clear his name and find the real culprit in time to save him from a horrendous execution?

Help comes from an unexpected source and challenges Martha’s ideas of who can be a follower of Jesus. She must make impossible choices about who to trust and what to do to save her friends.

Set in Caesarea in AD 39, only six years have passed since Jesus rose from the dead and the new believers have important decisions to make as to who is now acceptable to join their group. But Martha is determined that nothing will stop her from helping those who need her.

“Return to Caesarea is an entertaining and well researched book. It transports you into the world of 1st Century Judea where different cultures collide.  The characters are well drawn and realistic making you keep turning the pages… and not put it down… to find out what happens to them and ‘who did it!.’

If you’ve read the first book…. then it’s good to hear more about those characters and their journey.”

Margaret UK