The Darkest Dawn — Jessi Hammond

**The Wayfarer series can be read in any order, as each story is complete within itself.**
Wayfarer: a traveller, usually on foot; a person in transit from one place to another.
From parent to child, found and lost, cherished and discarded, one small piece of stone imbued with a mysterious essence will affect thousands of people from all over the world and across more than nine thousand years of history.
A little over two thousand years ago, Aquila is cleaning the Master's villa in Pompeii when ash and heated pumice stones begin spewing from the summit of Mt Vesuvius and raining down on the city.
Born a slave, Aquila has never been able to choose anything in her fourteen years.
Now, her survival â€" and the lives of two infants â€" will depend on the choices she makes…