Hunter, a man familiar with history and too many cheesy Sci-Fi movies, must brave this much forgotten world and work with its duplicitous residents while simultaneously avoiding the ever present risk of changing history. He's seen the movies and read the books and knows enough about Rome to have already realized that within minutes of their arrival, something has gone seriously wrong with the timeline. History is not as he remembers. Upon meeting the emperor Caligula, he finds the man to be completely different than how history remembers him. The man is completely sane, and others in his family are not as he remembers either, but Hunter and his team must work with these people carefully as they try to stay alive and find their way home.
He only hopes that he isn't around when Caligula finally fulfills his historical duties and turns into the insane tyrant who once proclaimed himself a god and vowed to appoint his horse as Rome's head of state...