Q.V. Hunter is the author of eleven novels, including five Embers of Empire stories of espionage adventure in the Late Roman Empire of the fourth century. Hunter lives in a Jurassien village which was once a lookout point for Roman soldiers posted to Julius Caesar's colony Noviodunum. They were assigned the resettlement and administration of Celtic Helvetic 'barbarians' defeated in the Battle of Bibracte in 58 BC. Hunter is married to a descendant of Alemannic refugees of the Roman Empire. They have three adult children.