The Final book in the “Comrades of the Cross Series.” As a Levite boy Phannias has been raised to be a strict keeper of the law. But he is devastated when he first feels the crushing blow of his inadequacy. At the same time he sees glimpses of hope in the possibility that the Messiah has actually come. When it is time for Phannias to take his place in the temple in Jerusalem he realizes he is surrounded by corruption and impurity. As his world falls to pieces around him can Phannias find truth? Are the tales he keeps hearing about the Messiah’s coming true? A tale set during the Destruction of Jerusalem.