The King of Sithonia: a Tale of Greece

Imminent war in the Balkans. An ambitious hotelier in Northern Greece. And the one decent highway from Greater Europe to Greece runs through the Balkans. Stephanos Philippides is desperate for a new office assistant. He also has a huge, looming problem that could devastate his hotels. And the problem is not the threat of war. Enter a third problem. Or what looks initially like a third problem. Katerina Makarios is at the top of her class at Anatolia Secretarial School in Thessalonika. She's only nineteen. Her goal is Law School, and she is taking a year's secretarial training to work her way through school. One day in early spring Katerina is summoned to the office of the director of Anatolia's Secretarial School. The director has an intriguing proposal for her: Katerina is offered the chance to become the personal office assistant of one of the richest, most reclusive men in the city. The pay is sky-high, but the hours will be long, and the boss has the reputation of being difficult to work with. What will happen if she works for this man?