Amata: Book Three in The First Vestals of Rome Trilogy
About this ebook
It is 716 BCE, over thirty years since the founding of Rome. The city’s war-like nature has made it the “tyrant of Latium,” and King Romulus’s hardened nature has caused the fledgling Vestal order to fall into disrepute. But as crisis strikes and an enigmatic newcomer named Numa arrives in the city, Romulus’s only living kinswoman, Amata, must rise to restore the dignity of the order.
AMATA is the riveting conclusion to The First Vestals of Rome, an epic trilogy about the founding Vestal Virgins of ancient Rome.
About The First Vestals of Rome trilogy
Set in the 8th century BCE, The First Vestals of Rome is an action-packed trilogy that dramatizes the sensational, often perilous lives of three legendary women who gave rise to Rome’s powerful order of Vestal Virgins. All of them central to the life of Romulus, Rome’s founder, these tectonic women were fated to shape the history of the Eternal City as much as any Caesar who came after them.
About the author
Debra May Macleod is an author of seven historical fiction novels set in Ancient Rome and featuring the esteemed order of Vestal Virgins. Her novels chronicle the Vestal Order's history over a thousand year period, from its earliest days to its emotional end.
Her trilogy The First Vestals of Rome is set in the 8th century BCE and dramatizes the legendary lives of the founding Vestal Virgins of Ancient Rome.
Her trilogy The Vesta Shadows takes place from 45 BCE to 14 CE and follows the life of the Vestal priestess Pomponia Occia, who is inspired by the real Vestal Occia who lived during this time—the years that saw the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Empire, and beyond.
And finally her novel COELIA CONCORDIA: THE LAST VESTAL VIRGIN OF ROME dramatizes the end of the great Vestal Order... and the end of the Roman Empire itself.
Debra has a Bachelor of Arts in English and Classics, and a Juris Doctor. She welcomes readers to visit her website at DebraMayMacleod.com.
