The Unsung-The Brother

He did not follow his brother at first. Then he became the pillar of the Jerusalem believers - until a high priest found a gap between Roman governors.James of Nazareth grows up in a carpenter's house in the shadow of a brother the village cannot rank. He resists the movement, watches the road his brother takes into the city's knives, and after the wood and the empty tomb becomes the steady hand of the Jerusalem assembly. He judges the nations at the Council, holds the widows and the weights, and carries the rumor that Paul's teaching undoes the Law - until a high priest, between governors, stones him for the pillar he has become.The Brother is historical fiction grounded in Acts, Galatians, and Josephus: a novel of reluctant belief, institutional pressure, and the cost of being the just man when the city needs a scapegoat. Book Three of The Unsung.