In A.D. 62: Pompeii, Rebecca East's historical fiction time travel story, the heroine, Miranda, lands in Pompeii right before a devastating earthquake, but several years before the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. Miranda is able to use her modern knowledge of events in history to work her way up the ancient social ladder.
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