A second volume in the author's chronicle of the life of Christ begins prior to his baptism in the Jordan River and concludes with the miracle at Cana, as he leaves Nazareth to confront his destiny and the call to be Israel's liberator from Roman occupation.

Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her career so far, Anne Rice gives us now her most ambitious and courageous audiobook, a novel about the early years of Christ the Lord, based on the gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship.