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When Vicky Amari, FBI agent, travels to Italy on vacation and meets Tony Vega, a detective with the Italian National Police, love is the furthest thing from her mind. After he enlists her help in an investigation, the door to the past is ripped open. She realizes the icy chills that run up her spine have nothing to do with the temperature, but with her travel back to the first century where she encounters a gladiator who accidently returns with her to modern day Italy. As the three unite to explore the disappearance of irreplaceable Etruscan antiquities, drug smuggling, and cold-blooded murder, they become enmeshed in the inescapable web of lies and secrets of well-known citizens of an Italian hill town. With the last days of her vacation fast approaching, Vicky helps the gladiator return to the first century. She realizes her life has changed in unexpected ways, and that she and Tony have developed a closeness neither wishes to give up.