02163cam a2200385 i 4500 1698682865 TxAuBib 20241105120000.0 231018s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780063284685 0063284685 (OCoLC)1404054974 TxAuBib rda Moore, Rachel, author. Us in ruins / by Rachel Moore. First edition. New York : Harper, an impreint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2024. ©2024. 355 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The mythical Vase of Venus Aurelia hasn't been seen since 1932, but Margot Rhodes is determined to change that. Drawn by the vase's supposed magical properties, Margot embarks on her school's archaeological trip to Pompeii. Sure, it's her first time holding a shovel, but 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 shards, Margot 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 Van, and then the statue comes to life. Catapulted into the present, Van is nothing like the wordsmith Margot imagined. He's all sharp edges, intent on retrieving the relic for all the wrong reasons. But it takes two to survive Venus's death-defying challenges, and, together, Margot and Van must excavate the treasure--and their buried pasts--before their story ends in ruins. 20241105. Buried treasure Fiction. Magic Fiction. Excavations (Archaeology) Fiction. Archaeology Fiction. Treasure troves Fiction. Pompeii (Extinct city) Fiction. Romance fiction. lcgft Young adult fiction. Historical fiction. lcgft TXKPL