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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

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My Teaser for today is from

Curses and Smoke

A Novel of Pompeii

by Vicky Alvear Shecter

Genre: Historical Romance / YA

Teaser #1 from page 76 in the hard cover

“I think the earth is trying to tell us something.”

“That another big earthquake is coming?”

“No, I think it’s something else.”

Teaser #2 from page 80 in the hard cover

She stared up at him as he moved closer. He released her wrist and cupped her cheek, his thumb caressing soft, flushed skin.  He paused to drink in her scent, her warmth, the way her breath hitched when he bent toward her. Yes, this was a very bad idea, but as he lowered his mouth onto hers, his fears melted away.

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I won this book in a giveaway. Thanks Trakena!

I fell in love with an old movie called The Last Days of Pompeii and was so excited when I won this. Can’t wait to get further into it.

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Book Description:

When your world blows apart, what will you hold onto?

TAG is a medical slave, doomed to spend his life healing his master’s injured gladiators. But his warrior’s heart yearns to fight in the gladiator ring himself and earn enough money to win his freedom.

LUCIA is the daughter of Tag’s owner, doomed by her father’s greed to marry a much older Roman man. But she loves studying the natural world around her home in Pompeii, and lately she’s been noticing some odd occurrences in the landscape: small lakes disappearing; a sulfurous smell in the air. . . .

When the two childhood friends reconnect, each with their own longings, they fall passionately in love. But as they plot their escape from the city, a patrician fighter reveals his own plans for them — to Lucia’s father, who imprisons Tag as punishment. Then an earthquake shakes Pompeii, in the first sign of the chaos to come. Will they be able to find each other again before the volcano destroys their whole world?

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How about you? Got a tease? Tell me!