In the mid-1990s, on a path toward living a religious life, a group of graduate students travels to the San Marco Convent in Florence, Italy, to study art history and assist in the restoration of the Fra Angelico frescos, sacred to Pope John Paul II.

What happens at San Marco Convent will change their lives forever. A seminarian and a Felician Sister fall in love. A Girolamo Savonarola letter is found in an ancient box, a lost Leonardo da Vinci mural is discovered, and there is an attempted assassination on Pope John Paul II's life while visiting the convent to view the restored frescos.

The Annunciation was a finalist in the 2015 Indie Book Awards. The novel was published by Westbow Press in 2015 and has since undergone a revision into 70 scenes rather than chapters.

Good novels move, entertain, and teach us something about ourselves and the world. Ron Teachworth's The Annunciation gives us all that in spades.

- Kimberly Kafka, author