Us in Ruins
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The mythical Vase of Venus Aurelia hasnβt been seen since 1932, but Margot Rhodes is determined to change that.
Drawn by the vaseβs supposed magical properties, Margot embarks on her schoolβs archaeological trip to Pompeii. Sure, itβs her first time holding a shovel, but sheβs got something no one else does: lost teenage explorer Van Keaneβs journal.
Poring over the poetic entries that serve as a map to the vaseβs missing shards, Margot finds herself falling in love with the boy who wrote it a century ago. Sheβs shocked when her search leads her to a statue that looks exactly like Van, and then the statue comes to life.
Catapulted into the present, Van is nothing like the wordsmith Margot imagined. Heβs all sharp edges, intent on retrieving the relic for all the wrong reasons. But it takes two to survive Venusβs death-defying challenges, and, together, Margot and Van must excavate the treasureβand their buried pastsβbefore their story ends in ruins.
With a blend of humor, magic, and love, Rachel Moore crafts another stand-alone adventure rom-com full of double- and triple-crosses, hilarious shenanigans, and frustration-fueled banter, where the best treasure is true love.
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Rachel Moore is a content marketer and writer living in Nashville, Tennessee. She graduated from the University of Evansville with a degree in creative writing, and she has never met a rom-com she didnβt love. On the rare occasion she isnβt writing happy endings, you can find her collecting dictionaries, drinking entirely too much coffee, and drifting through library stacks.
