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Island of Gold

Island of Gold
  • Author(s): Amy Maroney
  • Location(s): France, Rhodes
  • Genre(s): Historical, Suspense
  • Era(s): fifteenth century (medieval/Renaissance)

A mesmerizing novel of Renaissance Europe. She followed her heart. But at what cost? France, 1450. Sophie, the spoiled favorite child of a wealthy merchant, secures a love match with Cédric, a dashing noble-born falconer. But their isolated life...

Island of Secrets

Island of Secrets
  • Author(s): Patricia Wilson
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Looking back WW2

‘The story started at dawn on the fourteenth of September, 1943 . . .’ All her life, London-born Angelika has been intrigued by her mother’s secret past. Now planning her wedding, she feels she must visit the remote Crete...

It’s All Greek To Me

It’s All Greek To Me
  • Author(s): Andrea Christodoulou
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ismeena Eliades has hit a life stalemate. She’s bored of her job as an administrative assistant in the stuffy corporate legal world, fed up of her dried-up love life, and tired of drinking away her thirties. And then there’s...

Ithaca

Ithaca
  • Author(s): Claire North
  • Location(s): Ithaka (Ithaca)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Ancient Greece

This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. Beyond Ithaca’s shores, the whims of gods dictate the wars of men. But on the isle, it is the choices...

Jason and the Sargonauts

Jason and the Sargonauts
  • Author(s): James Collins
  • Location(s): Symi
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): Modern day and back to 1882

A mysterious iron chest arrived on the island of Symi, Greece in 1882 and was immediately hidden for its own safety. 121 years later and Jason is working as a holiday rep for SARGO holidays. When his grandmother turns...

Kat’s Greek Summer

Kat’s Greek Summer
  • Author(s): Mima Tipper
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary / 21st Century

Almost-freshman Kat Baker has big plans to train all summer long so she can become the running goddess of her high school. But when she learns her summer will instead be spent exploring her roots in a rustic Greek...

Kritsotopoula, Girl of Kritsa

Kritsotopoula, Girl of Kritsa
  • Author(s): Yvonne Payne
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1823

Based on a true story in Kritsa, Crete, Greece, this novel follows the childhood exploits of Rodanthe, the feisty daughter of the local priest. She yearns for her father’s approval without appreciating his efforts to keep her safe under...

Kritsotopoula: Girl Of Kritsa

Kritsotopoula: Girl Of Kritsa
  • Author(s): Yvonne Payne
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1823

Rodanthe, the feisty daughter of Kritsa’s pappas (priest), spent her childhood longing for her father’s approval without appreciating his efforts to keep her safe under Ottoman oppression.Years later, the ruling Pasha orders Rodanthe’s kidnap intent on making her his...

Lady Killer

Lady Killer
  • Author(s): Katherine Wood
  • Location(s): Greece, Sweden
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Gia and Abby have been friends since childhood, forever bonded by the tragedy that unfolded in Greece when they were eighteen. Now thirty, heiress Gia is back in Greece with her shiny new husband, entertaining glamorous guests with champagne under...

Last Seen in Santorini

Last Seen in Santorini
  • Author(s): Vivian Conroy
  • Location(s): Santorini
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Miss Ashford investigates #2 A gorgeous Greek island A stranger in a veil And a fatal fall from the cliffs… Miss Atalanta Ashford is sightseeing near Venice when a mysterious veiled lady approaches her with the urgent request to...

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