Description
Is it a curse to be too brilliant? For Tony it is. He finishes school at fifteen and becomes a successful video game designer. By the time he's nineteen, he's burnt out and lonely. He yearns for a world filled with real people and not avatars. His father who died when he was a kid used to tell him how his family, the Lunas, fought many battles in Sicily and made a fortune in the 1300s – all gone now, leaving his father penniless. Tony sets off for Sicily and the old town of Syracuse. He walks into a palazzo with a strange name over the door, the "Circle of Conversation”, filled with people in disguise. But this is no costume ball. The Circle is a place out of Time where the ghosts of his ancestors mill about, waiting for Judgment Day – among them, a beautiful woman with deep, black eyes that promise love. The door slams shut, Tony is trapped. His trip to Sicily, meant as a simple voyage of self-discovery, has turned into a nightmare. How can he shake off the past and find himself?
Chapter One: The Butterfly Bush
