Pompeii: City on Fire: A Novel

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.