Son of Hydra

<p><strong>Silver Medal Global Book Awards 2025</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>'A transportive and beautifully written story that needed to be told.'</strong></p><p>-Yvette Manessis Corporon international bestselling author of <em>Daughter of Ruins</em></p><p></p><p><strong>'As cinematic as <em>Master and Commander</em> as heartfelt as <em>Captain Corelli's Mandolin.</em>'</strong></p><p>-Peter Barber internationally awarded bestselling author of <em>The Parthenon Series</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Sydney 1829.</strong></p><p>Ghikas Voulgaris arrives in the penal colony of New South Wales as the first Greek convict in Australia. Found guilty of piracy he has avoided the gallows but been exiled half a world from home-the final stop in a journey that began on the Greek island of Hydra.</p><p></p><p>Born into a powerful shipping family Ghikas was raised to command men and captain his own fleet. But a reckless act during the Greek War of Independence-attacking a ship supplying the enemy-sets in motion a chain of consequences he cannot outrun carrying him from the war-torn Mediterranean to prisons in Malta and England and finally to the far edge of the British Empire.</p><p></p><p>In the colony no one cares who he once was. Least of all Mary-an Irish orphan who refuses to bow to any man.</p><p></p><p>Ghikas is determined to survive his sentence return to Hydra and reclaim his birthright. But Australia has other plans.</p><p></p><p><strong>Inspired by a true story <em>Son of Hydra </em>blends Greek and Australian history into a sweeping tale of love exile and the search for identity.</strong></p>