Shortly before WWII erupts, George Ghikas starts having recurring dreams about an unknown dancing girl. Because George has Greek ancestry, the military sends him behind enemy lines on occupied Crete with orders to organize partisan groups in the White Mountains. While George is performing his important work, he has hallucinations of the same dancing girl who has appeared so often in his dreams. Progressively, George is enmeshed in a 3,600-year-old world, where it appears he was once the victim of a human sacrifice ceremony that was taking place in a restored Minoan temple located near his...

Issak flees his native Antwerp after committing a terrible crime. Settling in Snowdonia, he builds a home in the hills and founds a family with Rachel, a vagrant gypsy woman. But he remains haunted by his past with Julie, his one true love, and the conviction that his eldest son will in some way pay for his father's past sins. About the Author: Author Nigel Patten loves words and the music behind them. He teaches English literature for the French Baccalaureate in an international alpine college. Patten grew up in the United Kingdom and later moved to Switzerland. He now lives and writes in a...

The last decade of the 19th century were troubled years in South Africa. Tension between Britain and the two Boer republics, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, increased until war became inevitable. These turbulent times saw many notable figures pass through Cape Town, including Rudyard Kipling, Robert Baden-Powell, Jan Smuts and Cecil Rhodes. All of them would visit 'Mon Desir', the home of Sir Henry Juta, barrister and Speaker of the Cape House. Under Table Mountain is the story of Louise Juta, the youngest of Sir Henry's four daughters, from her birth until she left South Africa in...

The Tide of Destiny is a stunning novel set in 1799 through 1808 during the Napoleonic era. The story takes place in Southern Switzerland and on the Ligurian coast. Damien Andre Berra, son of a Swiss farmer, is exiled to northern Italy in the wake of Napoleon's crossing over the Saint Bernard Pass in 1799. Inspired by a number of amorous adventures, Damien becomes a renowned linguist and short story writer. His experiences during this turning point in European history are set amidst the political events and the women he meets. Damien becomes a famous linguist and a writer of short stories in...

Une passion incompatible raconte l'histoire dramatisee des derniers trois mois dans la vie du poete activiste, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Au printemps 1822, Percy et sa deuxieme epouse, Mary Woolstonecroft, l'auteur du roman celebre FRANKENSTEIN, accompagne par sa demi-s ur, Claire, ont loue une villa sur la cote toscane. Ils furent rejoints par Jane et Edward Williams et plus tard par l'aventurier cornouaillais Edward Trelawny. Les rapports entre Mary et son mari se sont degrades apres la mort precoce de deux de leurs trois enfants. Percy partageait son affection avec les deux s urs, ce qui...

Peu avant la Deuxieme Guerre Mondiale, Georges reve regulierement d'une jeune fille, qui ressemble beaucoup a une danseuse dans un temple minoen. D'origine grecque, Georges est envoye en Crete apres l'occupation allemande pour organiser la resistance dans les Montagnes Blanches. Il commence a avoir des hallucinations de la meme jeune fille. Il est attire dans une situation imaginaire ou il s'identifie avec la victime d'un sacrifice humain il y a 3600 ans. La jeune fille fut a l'epoque la pretresse du temple, detruit plus tard par un tremblement de terre. Georges n'est sauve d'une deuxieme...