Written by Barbara Bockman, Illustrated by Jenifer Dearinger
Mistakes. Wrong Choices. Misjudgments.
Diana is passionate, benevolent, and impulsive. At eighteen years of age, she has finished her training and is prepared to commit to the service of Vesta, Goddess of the Hearth. For the next twenty years of her life, she will serve as a Vestal Virgin, tending Vesta’s sacred flame while foregoing matrimony. Still, she is still torn between her devotion to the Goddess, and her private yearning to be a wife and mother.
Despite this, she is confident of her choice and her obedience to her sacred vows. But hubris stands in her way. Her prayer is self-centered; she pardons a murderer without full credentials; she mistakes a friend for an enemy; she misses the signs that would have enabled her to divert a great calamity from Rome.
There are always choices. Diana has her duty, to her fellow priestesses, to the citizens and city of Rome, and to the Goddess Vesta herself. But then she falls in love.
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