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 now divested themselves of all the golden finery and laid it in a heap. 


'Have you anything on your boat that we could use to carry all this? A sack, a box or anything?' asked Manolis.


'There are a couple of crates in the galley,' said Petros, 'they have bottles of beer in them, I think.'


'Come, we'll empty them, bring the crates up here; put the stuff in to carry back.'


This they did and slowly, carefully, transferred the golden hoard to the boat. They then sailed back around to the landing stage that led to the village. There was Manolis' own little boat, bobbing about on the waves, tucked away from sight on the other side of the jetty.


Chapter 48: Stranded on the Island