According to Luke is a thrilling romantic novel of secrecy, symbols,faith, and forbidden love. It takes the reader on a quest for an ancient truth so powerful it disturbs the Catholic Church: a truth so explosive it attracts violent separatists and demands a ransom of millions.Shattered by the breakdown of yet another romance, Jana Hayes becomes a recluse in her tiny Venice apartment and buries herself in her work as an expert art conservator, until an ancient religious icon brings Roman Catholic priest Rob Anderson into her life. The secret they discover hidden in the mysterious artefact is not only devastating, but deadly. It has the star-crossed couple running for their lives across Europe and the Middle East, pursued by three ruthless opposing factions, each for its own reason determined to torture and kill to lay hands on the evidence uncovered. Follow a chase that charges from Venice to Malta, and then to the Byzantine town of Ravenna: a chase that escalates to disaster in Damascus, until a solution is found in the Victorian countryside in Australia. This new edition contains three pages of notes about the author's use of facts, and the research behind the fiction.