The slave Lorcis, a talented musician and entertainer, learns one morning that she has been sold to a new master. In her new household she doesn’t enjoy the privileged status she had held in her old home. But she makes a friend in her master’s steward, kindly Nestor, who is able to tell her the secret behind a painted medallion she received from her mother and has kept hidden for years. That medallion links her to her father and to a past she herself knows nothing about, since she was sold into slavery as a child. Now she must gain her freedom, with the help of an unlikely set of allies: a Roman nobleman, a poet, and a group of Christians. Her path takes her from the ashes of Vesuvius to the palace of the emperor Domitian and to the Colosseum.

Here's what reviewers have said about Daughter of Lazarus:

". . . the story moves easily and . . . grippingly and the author is giving us a good idea of Rome in the Flavian era." About.com

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