Having visions of people in trouble is a fact of life for Ellen Victoria, a shy biologist living in a biosphere in twenty-fourth century Central Australia. But when a gladiator appears amongst her tomato plants, calling for her to come to him, she knows this is something unprecedented. And even if she's more Bambi than Lara Croft, she also knows she has no choice but to time-travel back to the Ancient Roman Empire and find him. Because the fate of the world rests in her soft, plump hands and if she's to avert the apocalypse that never happened, but still might if a rogue time traveller has his way, she has to face her own fears and step up. But she doesn't have to do it alone. Her gladiator will be at her side; even if he's there as her kidnapper, not her champion. If she fails to win him over, all will be lost, history will be irrevocably changed, and her future Utopian world will cease to exist.