It is May 1977, a quiet house in the English Cotswolds. Emily,an emotionally fragile,gentle, nature-loving girl, is approaching her eighteenth birthday. Her father, Martin, has become worried about her since the death of her mother, as she has begun to walk in her sleep and says she sees her mother’s ghost. When Martin gets the chance to join his friend Barnaby on an archaeological dig on Crete, he welcomes Emily’s suggestion that she and her older brother David join him out there. Staying with their father’s Greek friends, Emily and David are introduced to the thoughtful young son of the family, Petros, who is prepared to go along with David’s constant quest for fun and girls but who falls in love with the shy, distant Emily. When the siblings notice a mysterious island in the bay, now deserted and a source of superstitious fear among the local villagers, David is eager to explore it, despite Petros’ warnings, but Emily feels afraid and troubled. Eventually the island draws them in, and soon Manolis, a local fisherman who is obsessed with the island for his own reasons, leads them all into a terrifying adventure. The story winds its way through Cretan labyrinths to a strange and surprising conclusion. 
Suitable for age 16+ Some mild sexual scenes and one violent scene

The Glass Madonna is created by Loretta Proctor, an eGlobal Creative Publishing Signed Author



The Glass Madonna

They caught up with David and the girls and went into the Throne Room. The colonnades of pillars that Evans had constructed now let in light but once it would have been pitch dark, lit only by torches. A strange room. What king would have kept council in such a dark, mysterious little room where the only furniture was an amazing high-backed gothic-looking 'throne' with its hollowed out seating area and a series of low stone benches that ran around the walls? At the time of the final destruction of the Palace a religious ritual seemed to be taking place, they said. Had the priests been praying to the Great Mother Goddess to save them? 


David remembered his father saying the box-like benches in there may have held snakes. That interested the German girls who shuddered and gave little screams at the mere thought. 


'The priestesses used to drape themselves in snakes,' David said, 'how d'you fancy that, Brigit? You could start a new fashion.'


Chapter 16: Seeing the Lily King