I opened the doors and stepped out onto a small balcony.  Before me was a large geometrically shaped castle.  Surrounding it lay a surprisingly organized aquatic parking lot lined with hundreds of small private boats.  Dozens more of its occupants were out for the day, sailing casually through the crystalline crescent-shaped Bay of Naples.  Beyond the bay loomed Mount Vesuvius like a massive grim reaper, a fallen angel choosing the moment to rain down its black death from above.

-Excerpt from The Vesuvius Isotope, a new novel by Kristen Elise, Ph.D.

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