For fifteen years, the Romans of New Pompeii have kept the outside world at bay with the threat of using the Novus Particles device to alter time.
And there are those beyond Pompeii\'s walls who are desperate to destroy a to.
This fragile peace is threatened when an outsider promises to help the Romans use the technology.
Yet Decimus Horatius Pullus--once Nick Houghton--knows the real reason the Romans don\'t use the device for their own ends: they can\'t make it work without grisly consequences.
For fifteen years, the Romans of New Pompeii have kept the outside world at bay with the threat of using the Novus Particles device to alter time