Review: Very endearing characters against the breathtaking beauty of Mykonos Island
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 21, 2012
No wasted time.  We enter Mykonos Island and immediately meet Dimitri  Stefano Alexios Kostapoulos, who is scanning the old villa facing the Aegean Sea - the house that was a sad page of his family's past.  But what catches his attention is a vision in a green sarong with reddish blond hair who comes out of the dilapidated yard.Meet Ashley Sheppard, the lawyer who has traveled from Boston to protect the interests of her grandfather.  Stefano owns half of the house and he wants to tear it down to build a resort. He has the backing of all the people.  But the other half is owned by George (Yorgho) Zanis, Ashley's grandfather, who had built the house for the love of Elena, the mayor's daughter.  Theirs was a sad story, and everyone holds George responsible for what happened and consider him the enemy, as they think that he had dishonored and abandoned Stefano's grandmother, Yaya Elena, years ago.Against this backdrop, Ashley Sheppard and Stefano Alexios (as he introduces himself to her so that she doesn't know who he is) have to be opposites in court, but not until they have fallen in love in just a few hours.  Their attraction is intense, and we understand it.  For him Ashley is the vision of Aphrodite - for Ashley he is a Greek god she thought belonged only to mythology.We follow their tempestuous relationship throughout the book, with the background of the Aegean Sea and the wondrous beauty of the island, which we can appreciate together with Ashley from Stefano's yacht, the Athena.It is not easy to express what we love more - the characters or the breathtaking beauty of the location.  They are both equally endearing, as in this novel the male character is sincere and understanding.  The past is a reflection of the love between Elena and Yorgho that is being passed on to their grandchildren, Stefano and Ashley, so that they can enjoy something that was denied to their grandparents.