*~*Love Notes: Damian to Calypso – Aphrodite’s Tears by Hannah Fielding*~*
In Hannah Fielding’s latest novel a young archaeologist who travels to the remote island of Helios to investigate an ancient shipwreck, becomes caught in a web of dark obsession, mystery and seduction.
In ancient Greece, one of the twelve labours of Hercules was to bring back a golden apple from the Garden of Hesperides. To archaeologist Oriel Anderson, joining a team of Greek divers on the island of Helios seems like the golden apple of her dreams.
Yet the dream becomes a nightmare when she meets the devilish owner of the island, Damian Theodorakis. In shocked recognition, she is flooded with the memory of a romantic night in a stranger’s arms, six summers ago. A very different man stands before her now, and Oriel senses that the sardonic Greek autocrat is hell-bent on playing a cat and mouse game with her.
As they cross swords and passions mount, Oriel is aware that malevolent eyes watch her from the shadows. Dark rumours are whispered about the Theodorakis family. What dangers lie in Helios: a bewitching land where ancient rituals are still enacted to appease the gods, young men risk their lives in the treacherous depths of the Ionian Sea, and the volatile earth can erupt at any moment?
Will Oriel find the hidden treasures she seeks? Or will Damian’s tragic past catch up with them, threatening to engulf them both?
Damian wrote a beautiful note…
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My Greek goddess, my Calypso,
When I dove from my boat and swam to the shore, I thought I would have the beach to myself. But then I saw you, sitting alone on the boulder, gazing out to sea… an ocean nymph, waiting on your island for Odysseus, ready to bewitch him with your mesmerizing voice.
And bewitch me you did, trembling, beautiful Calypso. There was something in the air that night – anything was possible. We, two strangers, we were possible. The air was cool, but in that cave… there was fire.
I told you then, before we were joined, ‘Regret nothing.’ But the next morning, when I awoke alone – it was hard to follow my own advice. It was hard not to regret you had left me.
I leave this here, in our cave. A message in a bottle. Perhaps someday you will return, and find this, and come to me (the address is overleaf). If not… well. You will remain my Calypso, straight out of legend – beautiful, intoxicating, unforgettable.
Yours,
Damian
Hannah Fielding is an incurable romantic. The seeds for her writing career were sown in early childhood, spent in Egypt, when she came to an agreement with her governess Zula: for each fairy story Zula told, Hannah would invent and relate one of her own. Years later – following a degree in French literature, several years of travelling in Europe, falling in love with an Englishman, the arrival of two beautiful children and a career in property development – Hannah decided after so many years of yearning to write that the time was now. Today, she lives the dream: writing full time at her homes in Kent, England, and the South of France, where she dreams up romances overlooking breath-taking views of the Mediterranean.
To date, Hannah has published five novels: Burning Embers, ‘romance like Hollywood used to make’, set in Kenya; the award-winning Echoes of Love, ‘an epic love story that is beautifully told’ set in Italy; and the Andalucian Nights trilogy (Indiscretion, Masquerade and Legacy), set in sultry Spain.
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