‘Breathes fresh air into the historical genre. ‘ makes the female experience of past millennia exotic yet universal’ USA TODAY Antoinette May - A tale based on the story of Pontius Pilates wife, Claudia, describes her friendship with Mary Magdalene, her secret love for a gladiator, and her inability to prevent Jesuss execution in spite of. But Rome is built on powerful, treacherous alliances, and while Pilate’s star continues to rise, shame and tragedy stalk Claudia’s family.Īs a circle of betrayal and despair threatens to encompass her, Claudia realises her fate and future happiness is inextricably bound with a man who appears in her dreams, a man who wears a crown of thorns, a man she knows her husband must not condemn to death… When Claudia falls deeply in love with a charismatic soldier known as Pilate, she determines to win his heart, whatever the cost.

Gifted with second sight, her dreams tell her many things, from which gladiator will win the battle in the Coliseum to the secret enemies who plot against the Emperor. Niece of Rome’s favoured warrior, she lives in luxury, surrounded by her family and tended by slaves. 2009 Customers Also Bought The Testaments. More Books by Antoinette May Haunted Houses of California. Pilate is her grand destiny, leading her to Judaea and plunging her into a seething cauldron of open rebellion. May is at her best when unencumbered by literary or historical precedent Claudia's sister, the unwilling Vestal Virgin Marcella, for example, is better realized than the shallowly rendered Caligula, and descriptions of Antioch and Caesarea are more compelling than those of well-known locations like Pompeii.Claudia has a privileged life. Pilates Wife A Novel of the Roman Empire.

Though blessed with the ability to see the future, Claudia never manages to prevent the tragedies she foresees. While Pilate busies himself with affairs of state (and those of the extramarital variety), Claudia chats with her Jewish slave Rachel, visits her gladiator lover Holtan, tangles with the conniving Empress Livia, dines at Herod's palace and attends Jesus' wedding. Six years later, Claudia marries the handsome and ambitious Pontius Pilate just before her family falls from imperial favor.

May imagines 14-year-old Claudia Procula living with loving parents and holding a secret devotion to the goddess Isis and a gift for seeing the future. Biographer and journalist May (Adventures of a Psychic) turns to fiction to offer a privileged woman's view of religion, spirituality, sex and marriage in the time of Christ.

Pilate's Wife by Antoinette May