The Treasure of St. Paul — Karla Brandenburg

When a long-time friend of school teacher Kira Ellison's proposes marriage, Kira realizes her life is passing her by. On a personal quest to discover "is that all there is?" she pursues her love of archeology and takes her summer break to do some digging. Caught up in the romance of the Holy Grail, Kira begins to wonder if her dream may be more than just a bedtime story when she meets someone else on a similar quest. Her curiosity takes her to Herculaneum, the sister city to Pompeii, where she meets the enigmatic Dominic Fioretti and finds herself searching for more than just a fabled artifact.