McKay offers the reader an opportunity to benefit from her more than ten years research seen through the eyes and felt through the emotions of a fictional character modeled from a historical and Biblical icon. The bibliography lists over 140 “works consulted.” The accurate descriptions of the settings, garments, and social commentary are detailed, picturesque, and sometimes haunting. The construction of prose and choice of words can best be described as simply “beautiful.“ The mind pictures formed by reading her words transport the reader to another place and time, and, in the end, we almost wish it were all true. Release date is October 31, 2010, and it’s available now from Amazon.
[NOTE] — In the author’s note, McKay clarifies that in all her research, she was only able to document that the man who later became Saint Maximinus, “traveled from Judea with Mary Magdalene and that he was the first Bishop of Gaul.”
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