Laura Duncan

The Dragonhorse Laura Duncan

It is 79 AD in the Roman town of Herculaneaum, and the slave girl, Lena, searches for her long lost cousin. In the midst of a storm, she defies her mistress and disappears into the wilderness, hoping to find answers to his mysterious disappearance. Instead, she meets a proud wolf who teaches her the art of survival, a Christian prophetess gifted with sight, a bird who teaches her to laugh again, and a magnificent creature known only as the Dragonhorse. Her journey will take her through a world of mystery, magic, obsession, and love, and hurl her blindly into the throes of one of history's most violent and devastating tragedies, the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.