AD 79. The arrival of a ragged man at the Geminus household sets in motion a series of events which take Flavia and her three friends to a villa by the sea at Laurentum, a few miles south of Ostia. Just off the coast is a sunken wreck full of treasure. But someone else is after the treasure, too.

AD 79. The arrival of a ragged man at the Geminus household sets in motion a series of events which take Flavia and her three friends to a villa by the sea at Laurentum, a few miles south of Ostia. Just off the coast is a sunken wreck full of treasure. But someone else is after the treasure, too.