The Divining / Barbara Wood / 373 pages

Rome, 54 C.E.  This book takes place during the reign of Nero.  Ulrika, the daughter of a Roman citizen and a German barbarian, is a healer.  She has her bag of medicines and herbs which she learned to use from her mother.  She also has a gift for seeing visions.  she doesn't know how to control it at the beginning of the book and thinks it is a sickness to be dealt with.  the story is her journey in which she learns about her visions and how to control and use them . along the way, she travels with caravans, meets the barbarians, finds her true love, and completes herself.  It is a good Barbara Wood book, but not her riveting best.  It is a good panorama of early Roman world from Germany to China.