Ashes on the Marbles

"A rare literary gem, one of those books that shock you, haunt you. » – Zoe Tsoura, Custodians Due to the Arts

“He had his lips on the throbbing vein in his neck, he could feel his every heartbeat. His sweat tasted sour, the vampire didn't care. If she could she would suck him whole. And the temptation was enormous as the choice was there, ready, tempting. A curtain of thin skin separated Zeno's fangs from the blood of his beloved. In a few minutes she could save him, make him truly immortal, live side by side through the ages.'

Lord Byron is bleeding to death in Messolonghi. Just before he wins the glorious immortality, he is tormented by the temptation of an escape into another, cursed eternity. This is the story of the love of two demons, the poet who loved a tyrannized nation and the monster who was destroyed in his passion for the poet. From ancient to Turkish-occupied Athens, the dark forests of the Celts, the bloody battlefields of Europe and the plague-ridden Venice, the eternal journey of the vampire Zeno closes in the lands that claim the heart of the demon, giving blossom to the dream of redemption.