Laughing Wolf

In the year 2213, Felix Taylor, a fifteen-year-old, is perhaps the only person alive who can speak and read Latin. Humanity has largely left war, crime, poverty and hunger behind, and travelling through time has become a real possibility. In such a world, Felix's linguistic gifts look useless, yet they may matter more than anyone expects.

A strange illness is spreading faster than science can contain, and the human race faces annihilation. The only remedy anyone can identify is Lupus Ridens, the Laughing Wolf, a plant that thrived in ancient Rome but has vanished for over two thousand years. Felix must travel back to around 71 BC to find it.

In Rome he must survive a dangerous age that includes Spartacus, Pompey and Cicero. Can he locate the flower in time to save his family and everyone else from the Plague of Plagues?