Well, the pot is boiling! Tilla thinks Ruso will sell her so she runs away. She is sheltered by Britons, then tries to return to her village. Romans capture her. Returned to (evil) Priscus who will probably kill her. I was right, he is the murderer. Ruso spends all his money to retrieve a boy who is being torn from his mother and sold into slavery. But wait . . . he now needs the money to keep Priscus from selling Trilla into slavery. And there's more. One of the other girls is giving birth -- and only Trilla can save her (she's a midwife.) But Trilla has a poison acorn in her mouth that she will chomp down on if anyone invades her territory. So, Ruso talks her into being a midwife. Baby born successfully, of course. Mom alive, of course. Now can Ruso talk her into being his wife. (Turns out she's the daughter of a centurion, so not really of slave stock.) I'll know tomorrow, but my guess is that all will work out well. Fun, but hardly historical fiction. Author uses phrases like "low-life" and "I worked my balls off." No attempt even to duplicate the language.
PUPPY Dysfunctional family has puppy that they need to get rid of. Mom places ad; family is coming over. Description of family. Mom: husband changed from long-haired attractive to stooped old man. Husband: talks constantly of living on a farm and doing what needs to be done, though he never lived on a farm. Conversations together: Sell and move to Arizona, get hooked on phonics for kids, buying a car wash. . . wonderful randomness. Straight-laced suburbanite comes to look at puppy. Seems like she will buy it, even though she is repelled by house. (Dog turds on carpet, filthy.) She is proud of how accepting she is until she looks out window and sees white trash's son tied by harness to a tree. Reader knows he is a menace to himself, darting across I-90, for example. Suburban mother beats hasty retreat, leaving dog to be (probably) drowned by dad who does what has to be done. Suburbanite remembers her own pathetic ch...
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