Son of Hydra

<p><strong>A powerful historical novel of love exile and redemption based on the true story of Australia's first Greek convict.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>He had everything - power privilege a future. One fateful decision cost him his name his freedom and everything he thought defined a man.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Sydney 1829.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Ghikas Voulgaris</strong> was born to command - the proud son of a powerful Greek shipping family raised to believe the world would bend to his will.</p><p></p><p>But one impulsive act during the Greek War of Independence changes everything. His punishment is swift and public: exile to the raw penal colony of New South Wales half a world away from his island home stripped of name and status.</p><p></p><p>In Australia the man who once dreamed of his own fleet now tends another man's sheep and takes orders like a servant. His fellow workers don't care who he was. And Mary - a fierce Irish orphan who will bow to no man - is everything he doesn't want in a woman and the one person who can see who he might become.</p><p></p><p>Ghikas believes he'll survive his sentence return home and reclaim his birthright.</p><p></p><p>But the real fight is just beginning not against chains but against himself.</p><p></p><p><strong>Inspired by a true story Son of Hydra is a sweeping tale of love loss and redemption a powerful blend of Greek and Australian historical fiction that explores pride punishment and what it truly means to be a man.</strong></p>