The Secret Cave of Janina
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Published: October 21, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780595371129
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; Literary; Fiction / Literary; General; Fiction; Fiction - General
Description: The screams of Theodotos Politis' eight daughters echo throughout the house at the loss of their mother. Theodotos had been warned that his wife Ostrou would be in grave danger is she had another baby, but he wanted a son so badly that his wife Ostrou bears her husband a boy and dies giving birth to their son.

Fourteen-year-old Sperenza blames her father for her mother's death and in a frenzy runs out of the house into the woods. On the edge of a cliff she loses her footing and goes tumbling down a steep hill. As she falls, she reaches out, grabs on to a small shrub and lowers herself precariously onto a small ledge about 30 feed from the top, where she apprehensively awaits her fate.

She was not alone in the woods. A group of young men would have to make a deicsion to come out of hiding and explose their identities to save the life of another. A choice has to be made....
Notes: Both Sarah's parents came from Janina, a little town in northwest Greece.  Jews from all over the world are rarely aware that there were Greek Jews, Romaniotes, most of who came from Janina. The Romaniotes came to Greece many years before B.C. Sarah's daughter-in-law was so intrigued by her heritage and encouraged her to write this ficitional story about the settling of the Jews in Janina.