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Gaynor Lynn Taylor

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It is A.D.33  Commander Marc Tiro is summoned from Rome to Judea to investigate the inexplicable and mysterious disappearance of valuable Lapis Lazuli stones from the guarded vaults of Herodium Palace.  Designed for Cleopatra I, inherited by a wife of the late King Herod, and bequeathed to Augustus, Pontius Pilate faces the anger of Emperor Tiberius if they are not found.  Marc reaches Jerusalem during the week of Christ’s crucifixion, quickly becoming embroiled in intrigue that threatens his own life..  His search takes him to Jericho, Qumran, Hebron and north to Damascus as he unravels ancient scriptural clues, gradually exposing a conspiracy of corruption, murder and revenge.  Yet it is the strange posthumous influence of the young Nazarene that leads to the ultimate revelation of the dark secret of the stones