Devil's Island: A Novel (Apocalypse Diaries, 1)

The apostle John pushed aside the incense. "I will not make your sacrifice," he announced to the Roman tribune. "There is one God, and his name is not Domitian." Standing next to John at the stone altar of the emperor's temple were other believers, including Asia's most wealthy citizen, Abraham of Ephesus, and his family. Will Albraham follow John's example? If he refuses to make the sacrifice, the shipping magnate's vast fortune will be confiscated by Rome, and he will either be executed or exiled to Patmos -- Devil's Island. This exciting historical novel follows Abraham and his family as they make their choices to worship Caesar or follow Christ, and it brings to life the days when Christians faced the lions in Rome's Colosseum -- and when the exiled apostle received the great visions of Revelation.