Blood on the Water: History Professor James Woodman is about to discover what he thought he knew about ancient Rome; was only one version of the story. While walking alone in an airport corridor, he is suddenly pulled through what appears to be a solid wall and emerges in a startlingly different place. A world where history has taken a different path. He is told the wall was a trans-dimensional portal by Cassandra, a hauntingly attractive woman. Cassandra is the scientific Team Leader responsible for opening the portal, a gifted physicist and a reluctant member of the Imperial nobility. She too is soon surprised, when she discovers, it takes a man from another dimension to fully appreciate her own world. A bond forms, one that strengthens into much more, as the two become entangled in a fierce battle between the Senate Majority Leader and the Emperor. A battle involving a deadly virus and ancient Mayan prophesy with the very survival of the empire dependent on the outcome. Only Cassandra's Brother Marcus, the Minister of Health has the answer. He has developed a cure; he can save the world, and only Marcus knows James is the key necessary to unlock the cure.