Coelia Concordia: The Last Vestal Virgin of Rome
For over a thousand years, the esteemed priestesses of Vesta were tasked with keeping the goddess's Eternal Flame burning in her temple. As the guardians of Rome, the Vestal Virgins were revered, for as long as the fire was alive, the Eternal City would endure.

This is the thrilling, emotional story of the last Vestal Virgin—Coelia Concordia—and her battle to save the sacred flame from an encroaching darkness. It is also a story about an ancient prophecy and a curse fulfilled, the fall of an empire, and the relentless suppression of Rome's great gods and goddesses as seen through the eyes of those people who lost everything—not just their gods and customs, but their freedoms—and yet never gave up hope. And all set against the backdrop of the biggest cultural shift in the history of Western civilization.
By Debra May Macleod, an author of six previous novels on the Vestal Virgins of Ancient Rome.