For romance readers everywhere, The Unexpected is a story of trial and tribulation under horrendous circumstances during World War II in Greece, but the novel is also a heart warming love story. The action begins when sixteen year old Christos Christopoulos must decide if he wants to aid a dying Italian soldier in Evia. Arriving on horseback at the site of the soldier΄s ambush, Christos is mistaken for an Angel. In the Italian soldier΄s pocket is a photograph of his beautiful fifteen year old daughter Marcella. Through an amazing series of events, Christos grows up to become a sea captain who one day lands of the port og Genova, the hometown of Marcella. From that point on the reader is immersed into the blending of two cultures, Greek and Italian. Soon the moment of truth comes for Marcella. Will she marry the man with whom she has fallen so deeply in love or continue to live without the love of her life. The suspense builds when her father decides to visit Evia to relive the moment when he was saved by an angel...
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