Defying Vesuvius

Seventeen-year-old Aeliana Lucia Gratius is the daughter of a wealthy merchant in Pompeii, and has always accepted the fact that she will be married to the man her father chooses, regardless of her own feelings. But a chance meeting with Cyprian, a poor city guard, causes her to question everything she was brought up to believe. As the two grow ever closer, she is visited by one of the Fates, a goddess named Pretia, who delivers an ultimatum: give up her love and marry the man her father chose-a quick-tempered and old-fashioned merchant the same age as her father-or lose the only home she has ever known to the power of Vesuvius.

Nearly two thousand years later, Aeliana is alive and well, posing as seventeen-year-old Ella Young in a small high school, the only survivor of the destruction of Pompeii. Alone, she carries the knowledge and guilt that her selfish choice-to flee the city with Cyprian and abandon her home to the mercy of the gods-resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent people. Until one night when Pretia returns to her and offers an impossible opportunity: travel back in time to Pompeii and prevent the eruption from ever happening. In a race against the clock, Ella is forced to revisit a home she never expected to see again, caught in the midst of a dilemma that ultimately pits love against fate.

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