Have you ever read a book that completely and utterly floored you? Not to because it was exciting but because it completely changed your way of thinking? Well that was "The Expected One" by Kathleen McGowan for me.
This book follows a writer and part time historian, Maureen Paschale in her journey of discovery of Mary Magdalene. Maureen and her cousin Peter, a Catholic priest, to Europe on a path to discovery the lost gospel of Mary. I can't give too much more away than that because it'll ruin the story :)
While I had heard that there was a gospel of Mary, the ideas presented in this book, including the author's note afterwards (which part of me found even more interesting than the book to be honest!), were just shocking. The idea of children of Jesus is fantastic and such earth shatter to most people (though again, not to me ;)). McGowan does a fantastic job interweaving the truth with the fiction. I can't wait to see where this series (there are two other books, I'm currently reading the second one now) goes.
