Women of Greece Series by Alex A. King

Librarian note: this is an alternate edition for ASIN B00JKKPACE. Seven Days of Friday opens with Days of the Week underwear and closes with a forty-year-old secret that refuses to stay submerged. Thirty-four-year-old Vivi Tyler is living her nightmare: gay husband, self-harming teenager, melodramatic mother. They’re picking apart her sanity, one stitch at a time. She’s crawling along rock bottom when the arrival of a mysterious package opens a new door to a new country... moreLibrarian note: this is an alternate edition for ASIN B00JKKPACE. Seven Days of Friday opens with Days of the Week underwear and closes with a forty-year-old secret that refuses to stay submerged. Thirty-four-year-old Vivi Tyler is living her nightmare: gay husband, self-harming teenager, melodramatic mother. They’re picking apart her sanity, one stitch at a time. She’s crawling along rock bottom when the arrival of a mysterious package opens a new door to a new country. A desperate Vivi dives headfirst into the quicksand that is Greece—her parents’ birthplace. But it’s a paradise far from perfect, and instead of the new beginning she covets, Vivi discovers trouble is determined to keep her in its pocket. Soon she’s fighting for her daughter’s life in a Greek hospital, clashing with her Greek relatives, and cobbling together an inadequate cage around her heart, lest she fall for an unavailable man. Before this story ends, somebody will be dead. And if some people are to be believed, this particular death is a good thing. A blessing, of sorts . . . . less

A fake—and very convenient—coma, an arranged marriage, and a disappearing finger trick kick off the second book in the Women of Greece series. Twenty-eight-year-old Kiki Andreou has lived her whole life in Agria, Greece, a seaside village where old-fashioned mothers arrange marriages, and gossip moves faster than light. Kiki doesn't want to get married, so she's itching to pop the champagne cork when her fiancé is a no-show at the church... moreA fake—and very convenient—coma, an arranged marriage, and a disappearing finger trick kick off the second book in the Women of Greece series. Twenty-eight-year-old Kiki Andreou has lived her whole life in Agria, Greece, a seaside village where old-fashioned mothers arrange marriages, and gossip moves faster than light. Kiki doesn't want to get married, so she's itching to pop the champagne cork when her fiancé is a no-show at the church. Until tragedy strikes the town, and Kiki's brief splash of freedom is washed away by accusations of murder and infidelity. At risk are all the trappings of her quiet life: her teaching job, her whole family's good name, and her evenings under the family grapevine, watching her mother make yet another half-hearted attempt on her grandmother's life. Kiki loves her home town, even though the hottest new sport is spitting—spitting on Kiki, that is. She's desperate to find a way to survive what's shaping up to be the craziest, hottest (and dampest) summer ever. But life-long friendships are shattering, and more than one person wants Kiki to pay for a crime she didn't commit. And she has no idea that an old plot twist is about to become new again, in the shape of a man who is intimately—and uncomfortably—familiar with the disappearing finger trick she showed him when she was thirteen. A man with one foot out of the country and the other in a military prison. less

A future together is impossible. A present together is forbidden. Irini Triantafillou is a damaged nineteen the first time she falls in love with Kostas Andreou, former bad boy, future Greek Orthodox priest. Kostas is about to step onto a celibate path, and Irini is desperate and determined to escape her home village to pursue the education her mother doesn’t want her to have. Friendship is their consolation prize, until tragedy rips even that small hope away from them... moreA future together is impossible. A present together is forbidden. Irini Triantafillou is a damaged nineteen the first time she falls in love with Kostas Andreou, former bad boy, future Greek Orthodox priest. Kostas is about to step onto a celibate path, and Irini is desperate and determined to escape her home village to pursue the education her mother doesn’t want her to have. Friendship is their consolation prize, until tragedy rips even that small hope away from them. Ten years later, a horrific crime brings Irini—now a psychologist—and Kostas together again, giving them an opportunity to rekindle their friendship … and their feelings. And then Irini is presented with a shocking choice, and once again, she finds herself one rumor away from banishment—from her family and from the village that was her childhood home. less