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Last published Tue, Apr 22, 2014
What would you do in nine hundred and ninety-nine minutes?
What if you didn't even know the end was coming?
Eighteen year old Aurelia, servant to Augustus Maximonius and his wife and two children, meets freedman Gaius Seutonius whilst out with her mistress.
She has no rights and he not many, but it is his kindness that turns Aurelia's head.
Follow the young pair as they break laws, fall in love and keep secrets to protect themselves as the countdown to the end begins.
So what would you do?
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