TARPEIA: Book Two in The First Vestals of Rome trilogy Rome is a city on the edge. A bold retelling of the legend of Tarpeia, a priestess destined to be swept up in the danger of Rome's earliest days, and whose name would give rise to the Rome's most dreaded site -- the Tarpeian Rock. It is 753 BCE and the new city of Rome exists on the edge of a knife. The young King Romulus reels from the loss of his mother's...