It usually started such as this, a pulse inside me, like a caution before the tide surged, roared . and froze everything.

Twenty-year aged Emma just landed in Rome, to find the father who walked away of her life more than a decade ago and was too occupied eating pizza to call. Journeying with her is usually a magic formula she’s carried only since child years: sometimes, around her, time halts. People and vehicles freeze, rainfall hangs still in the surroundings and there’s just her left in the silence.

To make factors worse, approximately Still instead of her father, Em runs into a earlier she’d rather forget in the individual of Lily, her step-sis. Kind, gorgeous, Harvard honors pupil Lily: the perfect daughter Em under no circumstances was. As the two of them reconnect, Em starts to pick up some creepy vibes from Katharos, the mystical archaeological basis Lily works for-and more particularly the ancient stone table they’re digging up close to the coliseum . . .

Faust, the blind hobo Em keeps running into, may be the key to piercing Katharos’s secrets. Actually, he might even have something regarding that pesky time-freezing matter. With Lily’s life on the line and no one else to carefully turn to, Em selects to trust this unlikely ally, but behind his enchanting smile and lunar antics, the guy includes some serious fine print . . .

Contains mature themes.