Mary Magdalene — probably the Bible's most enigmatic and controversial figure — has fired the imagination of artists, writers, philosophers, and historians for nearly two thousand years. In the search for the true story and character of this mysterious female disciple of Jesus, the author takes the reader through the gospels of the New Testament, the Gnostic Gospels, and Nag Hammadi texts of relatively recent discovery, to the High Middle Ages when adoration of Mary Magdalene was at its height.