Peter Georgas

Theophanes Virgin Peter Georgas

Marcus Giannou, press secretary for a Minnesota senator, joins his mother on a hasty trip to Kremasti, the village of her birth, to deal with a family crisis-the betrothal of her niece to an agent of the military junta that controls Greece with brutality and torture. What secrets from the past this enigmatic man holds over the family are a mystery until Marcus begins to untangle a complex web of betrayal and deceit that centers around a rare icon of the Virgin Mary painted by the Byzantine master, Theophanes the Greek.