Suburani - A Latin reading Course book 1

Excerpt from the back cover: "It's the spring of AD 64 and, as dawn breaks over the Subura in Rome, a young woman calls from high in an apartment building to her aunt working in a bar below. While her father collects the rent from the other tenants, a falling tile narrowly misses a senator's son passing through the streets in a litter. Was it an accident? In the Subura, your life hangs by a thread.