Books with title Shadow of Vesuvius: 2

Vesuvius is awake. Mira, a fifteen-year-old slave has seen what’s coming. To save her life, and that of her young charge, she must escape her stubborn owner and flee from Herculaneum. The day Mira became the child's nursemaid, the promise made to his mother was to protect the child with her life if need be. To fulfil that promise she must now convince the slave set to guard her to her her slip away with the baby boy, or talk him into going with them. Time is running out. Dominus decides sacrifices must be made to the gods, even though others have already run for their lives. She must leave now, or share the town’s fate when Mount Vesuvius sends its searing death and burial raging down the mountain.

Mount Vesuvius has awakened. Fifteen-year-old slave, Mira, saw the coming burial of Herculaneum and the death of its people in a vision. She vowed to save the Roman child in her care, but first she must escape her stubborn owner and the slave set to watch her. Mira begs her guard to let her slip away, or flee with her, before they share the fate of the town when the volcano sends its fiery death raging down the mountain.

"Some corpses lie undisturbed longer than others. But when Emily discovers a body hidden in plain sight amongst the ruins of Pompeii, she sets in motion a deadly chain of events that ties her future to the fate of a woman whose story had been lost for nearly two thousand years. Emily and her husband, Colin Hargreaves, have accompanied her dear friend Ivy Brandon on a trip to Pompeii. When they uncover a corpse and the police dismiss the murder as the work of local gangsters, Emily launches an investigation of her own. She seems to be aided by the archaeologists excavating the ruins, including a moody painter, the enigmatic site director, and a free-thinking American capable of sparring with even the Duke of Bainbridge. But each of them has secrets hiding among theruins. The sudden appearance of a beautiful young woman who claims a shocking relationship to the Hargreaves family throws Emily's investigation off-course. And as she struggles to face an unsettling truth about Colin's past, it becomes clear that someone else wants her off the case--for good. Emily's resolve to unearth the facts is unshakable. But how far below the surface can she dig before she risks burying herself along with the truth?"--