When Sam is drawn back to his grandparent's homeland in Leros Greece by a family death, he finds himself entangled in local gossip, strict traditions, prejudices, and old animosities. Attempting to make a life for himself there with a new love, he is forced to deal with the consequences of generational trauma when he delves too deep into events that some would rather forget. This is a multi-generational story of war, immigration, adaptation, and cultural contradiction, which explores what it means to belong to a society or not to belong to one, as well as the poisonous consequences of betrayal.

W.R. Woodbury was born and raised in Canada, but spent much of his young adult life travelling to Greece, Italy, Spain, England, Germany, and Australia. He has been writing on and off for forty years and once sent a few youthful novels to UK publishers but given his peripatetic lifestyle at the time, it was impossible to follow through. When he returned permanently to Canada twenty years ago, he made forays into painting and photography while working as a hotel manager. He has also worked as a librarian, forest-fire fighter, quantity surveyor, banker, tour guide, night auditor, taxi driver, landscaper, postman, ranch hand, porn actor, stained glass artisan, draftsman, and courier driver. He began writing seriously again in 2018.