In the splendour and savagery of ancient Rome, Cassius, the greatest poet of his age, lost the only woman he ever loved Two thousand years later, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, Antonia is driven to solve the riddle Cassius left behind Her chance comes when she and her father, both archaeologists, excavate the sun-baked valley where Cassius lived and died For Antonia there is a chance - one final chance - to undo the mistakes of the past, and to solve the age-old mystery that binds past and present together