When renowned archaeologist Ian McQuaid dies, he leaves his daughter, Brit, a villa on the Greek island of Corfu. The only thing Ian asks is that Brit deliver a package to a woman he once loved there. The problem is Brit knew nothing about either the villa or the love affair. She thought her parents had been happily married all these years.
After a disastrous love affair of her own, Brit finally admits to herself that she's desperately unhappy. At thirty two and left with more questions about her life than answers, Brit has a dawning sense that to live her own life free of shadows, she must trace the path of her father's past.
Brit's journey takes her from San Francisco to Athens, to the villa on Corfu, and finally to Venice, where she discovers a truth long hidden that holds the power to destroy lives. During the course of her odyssey Brit meets Andreas Leandros, a young Greek archaeologist, and while uncovering the secrets of her father's past, she discovers her own future.
Blair
McDowell wrote her first short story when she was eleven and hasn’t stopped
writing
since.
After many years producing non-fiction professional books in her field, Blair
decided to
exercise her
rich imagination and write novels of mystery and romance set in places she
knows and loves, peopled with characters drawn from her experiences in those
locales.
One
of her favorite places in the world is Greece, the setting for ‘The Memory of
Roses’, Blair McDowell’s latest novel. While in Greece Blair was inspired by
the ancient culture, friendly people and the picturesque settings, and the plot
for the ‘Memory of Roses’ was born.
Blair
has a home on a remote island in the Caribbean where the local lore of the
‘Jumbie’ (‘the dead who walk’) formed the basis for her novel ‘Delighting In
Your Company’.
The
setting for Blair McDowell’s book, ‘Sonata’, is the spectacular city of
Vancouver with its
vibrant
multicultural population and its rich musical life. In ‘Sonata’, Blair
McDowell’s love of
music
comes into play, and is intricately woven into this story of mystery and
romance.
Blair
is a member of the Romance Writers of America, Romance Writers of America
(Greater
Vancouver
Chapter), and the Romance Writers of America (Women's Fiction).
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