Summary

          When a team of student archaeologists explores the barren wilderness of the mountain caves above the Dead Sea in the summer of 1990, a misfired SCUD missile traps them in a cave with no apparent way out. Commissioned to bring back their find, an ancient scroll of an uncertain date and authenticity, the team uses its individual expertise to assess the ancient writings as a means of passing time with the hope of being rescued. Running out of food, water, and even air, the team loses track of time as the story from 2,000 years ago written on the scrolls comes to life before them in what could be their dying moments.
          Like the contemporary team of student archaeologists, a group of teenagers sought refuge in the same cave two millenniums before. Among them was a young girl named Annabella. Her story unfolds in a time we know so little about today, less than two decades after the great star shown in the East to the wonderment of great kings from afar, and more than a decade before the final chapter of The Greatest Story Ever Told. Imagine, an apocryphal tale about biblical characters we have come to know, but in their adolescence before anyone knew who or what they might become. This was not a game for either the modern team of archaeologists or the teenagers from ancient times, otherwise The Lost Book of Annabella might have been titled “Survivor 19 A.D.”

Gerald Arthur Winter is a Member of the Authors Guild, Inc. and an alumnus of Rutgers University. Mr. Winter combines his journalistic discipline of The Ski Better Book, which he co-authored with John Henry Auran, with the thriller pace of his international intrigue novels, The Knight and the Unicorn and The Morning Calm.

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