The copper scroll burned Hanno's hands as he etched the final symbols - each sigil drinking his blood like ink. Outside, Carthage screamed.

*"Rome takes our city today,"* the dying priest whispered. *"But you, my child, will take their world tomorrow."*

As the temple doors exploded inward, the scroll's symbols began to *move*.

Dr. Lena Voss didn't believe in curses - until the man with Roman eyes tried to kill her for a 2,000-year-old secret. Now, with the help of a rogue historian who knows too much, she must decode the truth before: ✔ A tech billionaire awakens what shouldn't be found ✔ A shadowy order silences them forever ✔ The past consumes the present Because Carthage isn't dead. It's *rising*.