In the first half of the first century CE, the known world seethed with religious and political turmoil. Five world changing individuals are drawn together by ties of love, blood or zeal from distant parts of the vast Roman Empire. Lydia, Lucius, Flavia, Daniel and the little firebrand missionary, known as Paul of Tarsus, seek the unnamed and unimaginable in his or her own way. LYDIA is a novel about religions, but is not a "religious" book.