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.