Island of the Winds — Althena G. Dallas-Damis

WOMEN IN LOVE -- AND TORMENT

HELENA Her first experience with love was with a husband who violated her body and every vow he made her. Her second, with a forbidden lover who intoxicated her with burning physical desire and a glowing dream of romance.

MARIA She found an erotic paradise in clandestine harem rooms -- and risked the hellish wrath of her own people to come back again and again.

JOANNA Her innocence was tenderly taken by the gentle, dreamy youth who promised her a lifetime of devotion -- then ravaged by the brother who was his twin and nightmare opposite.

Set on a breathtakingly beautiful Greek island where East and West joined savagely together, this is the torrential saga of a family caught up in the mighty tides of history and the swirling currents of passion....