Heike Wolff
Ashes of Crete
A Bronze Age epic. One woman faces the fall of Crete
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Edition: 1st
Release year: 2025
Number of pages: 258 pages
Images: No
Format: 13.0 x 19.0 cm
Zielgruppe: Erwachsene
Genre: Geschichte, Drama, Beziehungen, Romance, Historische Fiktion, Krieg, and Spannung
Sprachversion: ENG – Englisch
ISBN (Softcover): 9783910347779
ISBN (EPUB): 9783910347786
Short description
The great Minoan island Crete is waning. Famine spreads, the gods fall silent, and from the north the Achaeans advance, hungry for power across the sea. In Phaistos, Ide, daughter of the archon, is promised to Agathon, prince of Pylos – a political marriage meant to save her people through alliance rather than war. Yet her heart belongs to Geros, captain of the Phaistian fleet. As Ide sails toward Pylos, doubt grows. The Achaeans speak of peace, but their gifts carry the shadow of conquest. Can Agathon be trusted – or is he the key to Crete’s downfall?
As dark omens gather and the old gods fall silent, Ide is forced to choose between love and responsibility. To save her people, she may have to betray everything she believes in. Her decision will determine the fate of Phaistos – and whether anything of her world can be saved at all.
Written by Leipzig-based author Heike Wolff, this novel brings the lost world of Minoan Crete vividly to life, blending meticulous research with a powerful human story of love, loyalty, and loss.
Tags: historical novel, historical fiction, Bronze Age novel, Bronze Age Crete, ancient Crete, Crete Greece, ancient Greece fiction, Minoan civilization, fall of the Minoan civilization, Minoan culture, palace of Phaistos, Phaistos novel, Phaistos reading, Minoan archaeology, Aegean civilizations, Mycenaean era, Achaean Greeks, ancient Mediterranean, antiquity fiction, ancient history novel, love and power in antiquity, political intrigue ancient world, Crete travel reading, Mediterranean historical fiction, women in ancient history, myth and history Crete
About the author
Leipzig-based author Heike Wolff writes at the intersection of past and present. While her novels transport readers to distant worlds and past eras, her shorter texts address topics of the immediate present. She has been active on Leipzig reading stages since the 1990s and has curated the Offene Lesebühne in Delitzsch since 2017. Regular trips to Greece have shaped her enduring fascination with Crete and Minoan culture, which comes alive in this novel.
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