![]() ![]() Caela’s wounded, and Nic flees into the sewers, where he must beg for help from the girl he’s angered. With the bulla’s help, they survive the games-barely. The two escape the cave only to be recaptured and sent to Rome as players in the city’s brutal blood sports. So is the terrifying but beautiful griffin guarding it, whom Nic names Caela. Compelled by an ambitious general to retrieve an amulet from Julius Caesar’s treasure, long hidden in a mine outside Rome, Nic-a slave with attitude-more than succeeds, upending his life and escalating conflict among the power brokers of imperial Rome.Ĭaesar’s bulla (a good-luck amulet given to boys in wealthy families), a gift from his ancestress the goddess Venus, is especially powerful. ![]()
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