An Echo in the Darkness by Francine Rivers

An Echo in the Darkness is best selling author Francine Rivers second book in the Mark of the Lion series. Marcus, drawn to the young slave girl, Hadassah, turns away from the distractions of Rome in order to seek out the Living God. Believing Hadassah dead, he searches for answers about her faith in the vacant, deteriorating Jerusalem, and beyond. What he finds is unimaginable, and it may be the answer to his inner darkness that has lasted so long, and is threatening to overtake his spirit.
Francine Rivers has created a beautiful story about what love accurately represents, and how far one can and will go in order to gain it. Once started, an echo in the darkness is fairly impossible to put down.

My rating for this novel:
5Q-hard to imagine a better book
4Q-broad teen appeal