Margot is on the quest to uncover and reassemble an ancient–and cursed–vase,with the help of a boy who went missing in 1932because it’s the only way to put back together her broken heart in this standa-lone adventure rom-comperfect for fans of What the River Knows and The Lost City. The mythical Vase of Venus Aurelia hasn’t been seen since 1932but Margot Rhodes is determined to change that. Drawn by the vase’s supposed magical propertiesMargot embarks on her school’s archaeological trip to Pompeii. Sureit’s her first time holding a shovelbut she’s got something no one else does: lost teenage explorer Van Keane’s journal. Poring over the poetic entries that serve as a map to the vase’s missing shardsMargot finds herself falling in love with the boy who wrote it a century ago. She’s shocked when her search leads her to a statue that looks exactly like Vanand then the statue comes to life. Catapulted into the presentVan is nothing like the wordsmith Margot imagined. He’s all sharp edgesintent on retrieving the relic for all the wrong reasons. But it takes two to survive Venus’s death-defying challengesandtogetherMargot and Van must excavate the treasure–and their buried pasts–before their story ends in ruins. With a blend of humormagicand loveRachel Moore crafts another stand-alone adventure rom-com full of double- and triple-crosseshilarious shenanigansand frustration-fueled banterwhere the best treasure is true love.