The Dragonhorse

About the Book

It is 79 AD in the Roman town of Herculaneaum, and the slave girl, Lena, searches for her long lost cousin. In the midst of a storm, she defies her mistress and disappears into the wilderness, hoping to find answers to his mysterious disappearance. Instead, she meets a proud wolf who teaches her the art of survival, a Christian prophetess gifted with sight, a bird who teaches her to laugh again, and a magnificent creature known only as the Dragonhorse. Her journey will take her through a world of mystery, magic, obsession, and love, and hurl her blindly into the throes of one of history's most violent and devastating tragedies, the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.

About the Author

Laura L. Duncan graduated from University of Portland with a BSN in 2002. Since that day, she has been a nurse by trade, but an archeologist by heart. She has read countless books on ancient Roman and Egyptian history, including ten dealing specifically with the Eruption of Mt. Vesuivius. Her passion led her to create The Dragonhorse, a novel that tells the story of an ancient tragedy the way no historical text book ever has.

She works as an RN and continues to nourish her passion for ancient history in Killeen, Texas.