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Pompeii
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Lost Cities: Book 2

Pompeii (2011) (edit title/settings)

City on Fire

by T. L. Higley (Author) (edit contributors)

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Pompeii, a city that's many things to many people. For Cato, it's the perfect escape from a failed political career in Rome. A place to start again, become a winemaker. But when a corrupt politician wrongfully jails Cato's sister, he must oust the man from power to save her.  For Ariella,... read more

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Pompeii, a city that's many things to many people. For Cato, it's the perfect escape from a failed political career in Rome. A place to start again, become a winemaker. But when a corrupt politician wrongfully jails Cato's sister, he must oust the man from power to save her. For Ariella,... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Pompeii, a city that's many things to many people. For Cato, it's the perfect escape from a failed political career in Rome. A place to start again, become a winemaker. But when a corrupt politician wrongfully jails Cato's sister, he must oust the man from power to save her. For Ariella, Pompeii is a means to an end. As a young Jew, she escaped the fall of Jerusalem only to endure slavery to a cruel Roman general. She ends up in Pompeii, disguised as a young man and sold into a gladiator troupe. Her anger fuels her to fight well, hoping to win the arena crowds and reveal her gender at the perfect time. Perhaps then she will win true freedom. But evil creeps through the streets of Pompeii. Political corruption, religious persecution, and family peril threaten to destroy Ariella and Cato, who are thrown together in the battle to survive. As Vesuvius churns with deadly intent, the two must bridge their differences to save the lives of those they love, before the fiery ash buries Pompeii, leaving the city lost to the world

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  • Ariella: A young Jewish woman taken as a slave from Jerusalem by Romans. Escapes slavery and joins a gladiator troupe by disguising herself as a young man.
  • Cato: Roman that moves to Pompeii and buys a winery. He fights against the injustice of corruption in the city and against his family.
  • Octavia: Proud and strong willed mother of Cato. She is a recent widow and follows Cato to Pompeii.
  • Jeremiah: A Jewish, turned Christian slave for the gladiators.
  • Drusus: Head of gladiator school and instruction.
  • Clovius Valerius: Add a description of this character.
  • Micah: Younger brother to Ariella. Lost when the Romans took Jerusalem.
  • Isabella: Young sister of Cato.
  • Lucius: Husband to Portia
  • Otho
  • Portia: Cato’s married sister; she is beautiful and subject of prey by the city’s corrupt politician.
  • Hashem
  • Gracchus
  • Saturninus
  • Seneca
  • Ruso
  • Servius
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This is book 2 of 2 in Lost Cities. (standard series)

Preceded by Petra.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. T. L. Higley (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Country: USA
Publication Date: May 3, 2011
ISBN: 1433668572
Page Count: 368

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