Pompeii, present day: Archaeologist Maria Monti is working at a new dig site.
Several hundred miles away Alex Hunter\'s family is holidaying in southern Italy.
But she has just unearthed something that shouldn\'t be there, something that makes her question everything she knows about the disappearances of that fateful event.
Like hundreds before her she is investigating the night that Vesuvius erupted, consuming the ancient city with choking ash, scalding steam and rivers of lava.
Pompeii, present day: Archaeologist Maria Monti is working at a new dig site