Novelist Marian Rizzo and WordCrafts Press are thrilled to announce her latest novel, The Shepherd’s Walk: From the Manger to the Cross and Beyond, which released to retail this week in hardback, trade paperback, audiobook, and all major ebook formats. Set amidst the tumultuous Judean region of the Roman Empire during the reign of Ceasar Augustus and Herod the Great, Marian’s tale follows the life journey of a young Jewish shepherd named Jesse who just happens to be with a group of shepherds keeping watch over their flocks one night, when a heavenly visitor appeared with the news that a savior had been born.

A savior… born? A helpless baby lying in a manger… was this their long awaited Messiah?

It simply did not align with their concept of of a military leader who would drive out the Romans and restore the kingdom to Israel.