This book brings back Eve Duncan, Joe Quinn and their adopted seventeen-year-old daughter, Jane MacGuire. Jane is having nightmares about a woman (herself or someone else?) trying to escape from a tunnel. This just happens to coincide with a deranged wacko, Aldo, who is stalking and killing women who look like Cira, a beautiful actress in Herculaneum who died two thousand years ago when Vesuvius blew its cork. Aldo is obsessed with the long-dead Cira because his archeologist father was so obsessed with finding her treasures among the ruins that he ignored his son. Aldo thinks Jane is Cira and is, of course, out to obliterate every last reminder of Cira.

Jane devises a plan to bring Aldo into the open so the authorities can grab him. She enlists the help of Eve, Joe, and a shadowy character, Mark Trevor, who just happened to show up out of nowhere to help catch Aldo. They all end up in a tunnel in Herculaneum (big surprise) to see who will live and who will die.

In my humble opinion, this is not one of the author’s better stories. I know this is fiction, but everything is a bit of a stretch on the credibility scale. However, she leaves enough dangling hints for the next book.