When your world blows apart, what will you hold onto?
Tag is a medical slave, doomed to spend his life healing his master's
injured gladiators. But his warrior's heart yearns to fight in the
gladiator ring himself and earn enough money to win his freedom.
Lucia is the daughter of Tag's owner, doomed by her father's greed to
marry a much older Roman man. But she loves studying the natural world
around her home in Pompeii, and lately she's been noticing some odd
occurrences in the landscape: small lakes disappearing, a sulfurous
smell in the air....
When the two childhood friends reconnect, each with their own longings,
they fall passionately in love. But as they plot their escape from the
city, a patrician fighter reveals his own plans for them--to Lucia's
father, who imprisons Tag as punishment. Then an earthquake shakes
Pompeii, in the first sign of the chaos to come. Will they be able to
find each other again before the volcano destroys their whole world?