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The Glass Madonna

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

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Chapter 19: A visit to the mysterious island

'The lepers were dropped off here, went thro that tunnel into the village and never came out again,' said Savvas looking at the long, dark passageway that led through the entrance in the stone walls. 'It was like being sent into Hades while they were still alive, a living death. Manolis's parents were young folk, poor souls, yet as far as the world was concerned they were as good as dead.'

Petros looked at his father and sensed his unease. It seemed an intrusion somehow. Manolis was right. The dead should be left in peace here. Then he shrugged. If that was the case, no excavation or archaeology would ever take place. It was because it was all so recent that it bothered them. Perhaps because his parents had known some of the people who had been sent here, because the whole thought of that foul disease struck horror into the human heart since Biblical times. The Untouchables. For no fault of their own these people had been driven forth from human society.

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