About The Books: Ever the Twins Shall Meet

It seemed wrong to let the story Changing of the Gods succumb with the end of the book. There was more to tell. Furthermore, I loved the research into Roman history. So, my protagonist and his young wife sail from Corinth to Ephesus to help the Apostle Timothy establish the church in that land. They are blessed with twin boys, but three years later, one son mysteriously disappears. The adventure begins eighteen years later when the remaining son is arrested for a crime he didn’t commit.

It’s mid-morning in late March of 88 A.D. The marketplace in Smyrna, a remote Aegean city under the military rule of the Roman Empire, is alive with shoppers and merchants. Suddenly, a commotion erupts, and a handsome, well-dressed young man, is being confronted by an angry merchant and two burly Roman legionnaires -- the police men of that time -- and is taken into custody for a theft that had occurred the prior day.

Thus does Marsallas, son of an early Christian missionary and himself a spreader of the Word of Christ, find himself detailed by the authorities and accused of a crime that three eyewitnesses watched during its commission. He is imprisoned without a trial, even though he insists that he is a Roman citizen and deserves the privileges of such citizenship, which include the right to trial before a judge.

But why? Why were the witnesses so sure that it had been the handsome Marsallas? Only one explanation would suffice: that Marsallas had a twin brother. And that turns out to be the truth.