Honorable Mention
CRAFT 2025
Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest
judged by Roxane Gaye
The Beautiful Abyss
Look for the sequel, fall 2027.
An idyllic village on
the Aegean.
A gorgeous Greek man.
Niki’s unhappy marriage.
An affair gone haywire.
When they all collide, Niki is left holding the bag and has some fast decisions to make. Will she follow her heart or the money?
When Niki discovers a shocking secret about her husband…
…she jets off to Europe to contemplate life. There, she has a passionate affair with Thof, a gorgeous Greek man in an idyllic village on the Aegean. He opens up her world to the passion and mystery she’s been craving, and to his secret — he’s a shapeshifter. But there’s more….
While Thof travels abroad for longer and longer stints selling his family’s wine, Niki falls into the arms of Costa, Thof’s best friend and co-worker at the wine bar Thof owns. They manage to keep their affair secret, but Thof senses Niki has grown cold, and convinces her to take a romantic getaway to Istanbul to rekindle the flame.
Instead, Thof goes berserk, fully metamorphosing into his fox guide. He makes some delirious admissions to Niki and she learns the truth about what he’s has actually been up to on his wine selling trips. It’s about to turn Niki’s life upside down.
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