This thrilling historical fantasy set days before Mount Vesuvius destroys Pompeii is a meet cute with an explosive fallout. This limited First Edition hardcover includes metallic foil on the jacket and a hidden illustrated case An exploration of ambition and class, autonomy and religion, survival and love, Vesuvius combines the romantic angst of They Both Die at the End and the blended magic and history of The Song of Achilles to show readers that it is never too late to change your fate--or change the world. Clever thief Felix slips from city to city to survive the present and escape a past he can't remember. When Felix steals a divine artifact--Mercury's helmet--from a temple in Pompeii, pieces of his forgotten past begin to surface. Loren, an ambitious temple attendant, has seen Felix in his apocalyptic nightmares for years. The last thing Loren expects is for his dream to stumble headfirst through his temple doors, moments after an earthquake rocks the city. When Felix shows Loren
