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Fire beneath the stone
CHAPTER ONE - THE TWO HOUSES Begin: Pompeii at high summer. We are introduced to the House of Leandros - Roman with ties to Alexandria - and the House of Isis - Issa's family, Greek-Egyptian with ties to Rome. Both prominent, both in the…
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…She slid it in. There was a click. The door swung open. Beyond it, a chamber stretched into darkness, filled with shelves and chests and the promise of secrets older than the city above them. Issa stepped forward, and the lamplight fell upon the first shelf, revealing a row of scrolls, their seals intact, waiting for her hands. Behind her, Vesuvius roared, but it was distant now, muffled by stone and earth. They had found the place. They had found what the old man's master had left for them. And in the silence of that hidden chamber, Issa allowed herself to believe that they might, after all, survive.