Debra May Macleod

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.