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"THE GREEK TYCOON'S ACHILLES HEEL" is

 

"Wonderfully told, highly emotive and simply breathtaking, Lucy Gordon’s excellent new Modern Romance, The Greek Tycoon’s Achilles, is compulsive reading at its unputdownable best!"

 

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I’ve always been fascinated by the ancient Greek heroes, handsome, brave warriors who faced foes, both human and magical, with as much style as courage.  It’s that hint of the other world that gives their stories a special zing, especially their love stories.

   This is especially true of Achilles.  His father was human but his mother was a goddess, who wanted to make him immortal, so she dipped him into the River Styx which lay between the earth and the underworld, so that the touch of the magic water would make him immortal.  But the water never touched his heel, where she had held him, and all his life he was vulnerable in that one place.  In the end it destroyed him.  His enemy, knowing the one place where he could be hurt, fired a poisoned arrow into his heel and killed him.

   I’ll never forget visiting the Achilleon Palace on the Greek island of Corfu.  The place is a tribute to Achilles, with statues of him towering in triumph but also lying on the ground trying to pull the deadly arrow from his heel, his despairing face showing clearly that he knows it’s hopeless.

   These statues made such an impact on me that I took photographs of them to keep and study later.  They speak to me of the kind of man Achilles was, on the one hand a great authority, imposing his will by power, and, on the other hand,  someone who knew that ultimately his fate was no longer in his own hands.

   The expression ‘Achilles heel’ still resonates today.  Even people who know nothing about him understand that it means a secret weakness that we try to hide from the world.  Every one of us has that secret, which is why we can all sympathise with Achilles, and with Lysandros Demetriou, a wealthy, powerful shipping magnate, determined never to let the world discover the chink in his armour.

   But that was before he met Petra, whose instinctive understanding of him disarmed him, making him feel that with her he could safely reveal his ‘Achilles heel’, because only in real love can that risk be taken.  Even then they had many roads to travel before they could each abandon their defences and begin the long, beautiful journey together.

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