Brock Thoene

Ruled by Rome and manipulated by religious rulers with only selfish interests in mind, the people of the ancient city of Jerusalem wonder if a healer named Yeshua is the Messiah or just another imposter.

Bodie and Brock Thoene once again transport readers back in time to first century A.D. to the birth of Christ--the most critical events in the history of the world. Gossip swirls around the newlyweds Mary and Yosef. It is far too soon for her womb to carry the growing baby, neighbors say. Yet too much is at stake for Yosef to reveal the truth. He vows to protect Mary and the baby with his life, but how can he protect her heart from the barbs of betrayal?...

In first-century Jerusalem, questions arise concerning the identity of Yeshua of Nazareth, while Zahav finds herself waiting for the Messiah and Manaen, blinded by violence, and Susanna, struggle to overcome the evil surrounding them.

Ellie, a young American photojournalist in Jerusalem in 1947, becomes a pawn in a political chess game.

Nine-year-old Jude and his younger sister Kerah are ordered by their dying father to go to Jerusalem while Zachariah, Elisheba, and Yochanan wonder if heavenly signs foretell justice for the Jews and Rabbi Mazzar travels with three students to Jerusalem for Passover and sees signs of hope in Yeshua, who studies both people and the Torah.

Three figures, Zachai, the chief tax collector in Jericho, Shimona, a leper from the Valley of Mak'ob, and Salmon, a former prince of the Nubian tribes who was betrayed and sold into slavery, turn to the Good Shepherd known as Yeshua for salvation.

Tom Dawson finds happiness and peace at his brother's California ranch during the Civil War until his past comes back to haunt him following a violent stagecoach robbery.

Yod, a young girl born in a colony for lepers lays waiting in the Dying Cave, hoping for a miracle; and meanwhile, Melchoir, the former court astronomer for King Phraates of Parthia, prays for a miracle to save his drunken embarrassment of a son, Daniel.

Nehemiah, son of a Jewish woman, a weaver from Jerusalem, is born and raised among the Jews who didn't return to Jerusalem from the Exile. He grows up with the expectation of a soon-coming Messiah. Could the Yeshua of Nazareth, who is walking the earth, reportedly doing miracles, be that Messiah? Charged with a mission to carry a mysterious object back to the holy city of Jerusalem, Nehemiah arrives in Jerusalem just as the final events of Jesus'...

Born of missionary parents in Hawaii, David has a variety of adventures that take him from a job on a whaling ship to the California gold mines.