One Virgin Too Many

A lost child in a deadly lottery . . .

A frightened child approaches Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco, pleading for help. Nobody believes Gaia''s story that a relation wants to kill her - and neither does he. Beset by his own family troubles, by his new responsibilities as Procurator of the Sacred Poultry, and by the continuing search for a new partner, he turns her away. Immediately he regrets i...