Heresy: Jesus, The Teenage Years: A Love Story (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781534776463)

Three stories interconnect about discovering love in difficult times. An artist creates a controversial painting inspired by his teenage son, titled "Jesus, The Teenage Years." When the artwork is featured in an exhibit, it incites a group of radical evangelicals who attempt to destroy it. However, when their efforts fail and only generate more publicity for the artist, they plot to assassinate him. He is ultimately spared by a miraculous life-changing event that puts an end to the assassin's mission and her relationship with her radical pastor.

A nineteen-year-old Jesus finds himself working as a building contractor and fighting the Roman occupation. He meets and falls in love with a young woman named Mary, and they end up traveling to Bethlehem to escape Roman soldiers after a riot. In Bethlehem, Jesus learns the truth behind his family's flight to Egypt and leaving the innocent children to be massacred by Herod's troops.

Two thousand years later, a young Marine becomes disillusioned with the pointless invasion of Iraq and questions America's involvement in the Middle East. After witnessing an attack on innocent civilians, he wonders what Jesus might have done during the violent years of the Roman Invasion and decides to lay down his weapon.