The last girls of Pompeii
About this book
In Pompeii, in the summer of A.D. 79, Julia and Sura appear to lead opposite lives. Julia is the daughter of a wealthy ship-builder; Sura is an orphan. Julia bears the Curse of Venus—a withered arm; Sura’s beauty turns heads. Julia is free; Sura is her slave.Then Julia learns that her parents are planning to put her in the service of the Temple of Damia, the center of a cultish new religion, and Sura will be sold to an awful man who plans to make her his concubine.But when Mt. Vesuvius erupts, Julia’s and Sura’s fates are forever altered, forcing them both to face the true meaning of freedom.
Subjects
- antiquities
- children's fiction
- eruption, 79
- families
- family life
- family life, fiction
- family life in fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- italy, fiction
- italy in fiction
- juvenile fiction
- people with disabilities
- people with disabilities, fiction
- people with disabilities in fiction
- pompeii (extinct city), fiction
- slavery
- slavery, fiction
- slavery in fiction