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Damascus


A Historical Fiction Novel


Subgenres:

  • Biblical Fiction,
  • Ancient Rome,
  • Religious Fiction
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  • Early Christian sects clashing under Roman rule
  • Characters wrestling with faith, doubt, and personal identity
  • Stories where religious revolution sparks violence and transformation
Publisher Description

We are despised, yet we grow. We are d and crucified and yet we flourish. We are hated and still we multiply. Why is that? You must wonder, how is it we survive?

In a far corner of the Roman Empire, a radical sect is growing. Alone, unloved and battling his sexuality, Saul scrapes together a living exposing these nascent Christians, but on the road to Damascus, everything changes.

Saul - now Paul - becomes drawn into this new religion and its mysterious leader, whose crucifixion leaves followers waiting in limbo for his promised return. As factions splinter and competition to create the definitive version of Christ's life grows violent, he begins to question his new faith and the man at its heart.

Damascus is an unflinching dissection of doubt, faith, tyranny, revolution, cruelty and sacrifice. A vivid and visceral novel with perennial concerns, it is a masterpiece of imagination and transformation.

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