Bride of Pilate Author:Esther Kellner Claurida as a child had known only impoverished exile with her mother Julia the divorced wife of the emperor Tiberius. After many secret messages were exchanged and the influential Vestal Virgins had intervened, Claudia was brought back to Rome. She was at first without friends, without hope, without love. In these chilling surroundings, she gre... more »w into womanhood. Shae married Pontius Pilate who was virtually a stranger at their wedding. Only later did she come to know real love -- a love for which she had been searching since her parting with her mother.« less