Curses and smoke : a novel of Pompeii /
Vicky Alvear Shecter.
- First edition.
- 327 pages ; 21cm.
Tagus is a medical slave who wants be a gladiator, Lucia is the daughter of Tag's owner and betrothed to an older man, and the two teenagers are in love with each other--but it is the year 79 and soon Vesuvius will alter their lives forever.