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

Petros rose from the bed, straw sticking from his hair, almost comical-looking despite the grave situation and David almost laughed with his relief. 


'You look a right chump!' he announced, 'God, we were so scared you might be dead or something. Good to see you, mate!'


'Good to see you guys, too,' was the heartfelt reply from Petros. 


Martin came running into the house and gathered his daughter up in his arms. She put her arms about his neck and smiled up at him, kissing his cheek repeatedly as she used to do when she was a child.


'Dad, I am glad you're here. So glad. Thought we'd be here forever. Petros and I would have had to grow tomatoes to live on or something.'


Martin carried her out and shook his head, 'How can you joke? Have you any idea what we've been through? What mad sense of adventure came over you all?'


'I don't know, ' Emily replied, 'It was the treasure, you see. Manolis wanted the treasure. But it was more than that.'


Chapter 52: Emily accepts Debra