A Light in Ephesus

Ephesus, 95 AD. Cassia has spent two years learning how to disappear in plain sight - a silversmith's daughter who carries bread, coin, and quiet courage to the widows and prisoners of a faith the empire calls illegal, her fear folded so small and so long that she has almost forgotten what safety used to feel like. Then a Roman centurion notices her. Marcus Corvus was sent to root out an illegal assembly threatening the silversmiths' guild - not to fall for the composed, quietly fearless woman at the center of his investigation. As the quaestor's patience runs out and a jilted suitor's bitterness hands his superior all the evidence he needs, Marcus must choose between the oath that built his entire life and the conscience that has quietly outgrown it. Cassia must choose too - between the safe marriage that would shield her family, and a truth she can no longer pray around: that the God who asks for her whole heart never meant for fear to be the whole of it. A clean, closed-door Christian historical romantic suspense novel about choosing truth over safety - perfect for readers who love Biblical and Roman-era fiction, faith tested by real danger, and love stories built on sacrifice instead of convenience. Book One of The Seven Lampstands, a new series of standalone historical romances set in the seven cities of Revelation 2-3 - beginning here, where it all started, in Ephesus.