Household Gods — Judith Tarr

Nicole Gunther Perrin is a modern young professional, proud of her skills but weary of childcare, sexist law partners, and her deadbeat ex-husband. Following a ghastly day of dealing with all three, she falls into bed, and awakens the next morning to find herself in a different life, that of a widowed tavernkeeper in the Roman frontier town of Carnuntum around a.d. 170. In the great tradition of classics like Mark Twains A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court, Household Gods is more than a time-travel adventure: It is a tale of a womans strength and self-discovery, and of the real differences, and similarities, between life in our era and days gone by.