Apate is deceitful, deception Al, guileable and has a loving for revenge. But she is a slave, serving the Tiberius household, living in Pompeii in the year 79 AD. She has no power and no rights but on the 24th October 79 AD, when Mount Vesuvius turns on the city and Pompeii is being destroyed, will she find that revenge isn't the sweet honey she imagined it would be. What path will she choose? The one that will lead to her freedom or the one that will lead to her destruction. A suspenseful read on the eruption of Mount Vesuvious and the disapearence and destruction of Pompeii. A Classics project which turned into a book.

The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.