According to Luke is a thrilling cultural adventure full of secrecy, symbols, faith, and forbidden love. It takes the reader on a quest for an ancient truth so explosive it attracts angry clerics, violent separatists and demands a ransom of millions. Shattered by the breakdown of yet ather romance, Jana Hayes buries herself in her work as an expert art conservator, until an ancient religious icon brings Roman Catholic priest Rob Anderson into her life. The secret they discover hidden in the mysterious artefact is t only devastating, but deadly. It has the star-crossed couple running for their lives across Europe and the Middle East, pursued by three ruthless opposing factions, each for its own reason determined to torture and kill to lay hands on the evidence uncovered. Follow a chase that charges from Venice to Malta, and then to the Byzantine town of Ravenna: a chase that escalates to disaster in Damascus, until a solution is found in the Victorian countryside in Australia. This new edition contains three pages of tes about the author's use of facts, and the research behind the fiction. 'Church politics and forbidden romance merge together in this page-turner. A superb mystery from Rosanne Dingli.' Janet Woods, author of Salting the Wound
Rosanne Dingli has authored seven novels, a book of her published and awarded poems, and several collections of short fiction. Her work has appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies for over 25 years. This author has been connected in one role or another to the publishing industry since 1985. Much of her work contains references to art, literature and music, all of which inform her writing.