Secret Souls

Dining alone in a village tavern on the idyllic island of Crete, the intriguingly beautiful Chadwick Chase sets eyes on the darkly handsome and virile Manoussos Stavrolakis. Before the day is over each of them knows they will explore the furthest limits of carnal desire together.
So begins their lustful affair of erotic depravity, deep and lasting love. But is Manousso's raw sexuality enough to satisfy Chadwick's heated passion? Can Manoussos bring himself to accept the enigmatic Chadwick's mysterious past? She is an overwhelmingly seductive woman- such as he has never encountered before. He knows that unless they can learn to trust and forgive one another in all things, her secret soul will tear them apart.

ROBERTA LATOW

Everything about Roberta Latow was larger and more exotic than life. She was born in Westchester, New York but escaped her suburban background for Manhattan, where she was at the heart of the dynamic ‘pop art' scene in the 1960s. She was a noted art expert and gallery owner and has been credited with giving Andy Warhol the original idea to paint Campbell's soup cans.

In the early 1970s she went to Europe and moved around different exotic parts of the Mediterranean, which form the background for many of her novels. She particularly adored Greece and lived there for many years, earning her living as an art dealer and interior decorator. Later she moved to London and in the early 80s wrote Three Rivers, the first of her 21 erotic novels. It caused a storm and became an international best-seller.

Roberta was famous for her generosity and the wild parties in her Mayfair apartment. The carpets were of fur, indoor trees reached to the high ceilings, from which canaries sang in cages and Roberta herself looked magnificent in extraordinary jewelry and eastern garments. She eventually settled in the English countryside, where she created another magical home, wrote her novels and was much loved by her neighbors. She died in 2003.