Hi everyone! I lived in the Azores Islands in 1995-96 while my father was Vice Wing Commander at Lajes Field, Terceira. After I came home to the United States, I decided to write a novel set on Terceira, so that I could capture my memories from that time.

My book was just released anywhere ebooks are sold --feel free to visit my website. 

Here's a little bit about the story:

Torn between her father’s Catholicism and her mother’s Pagan beliefs, Eva finally chooses Paganism. She accepts the name of Arethusa but learns too late that her life will mir­ror the Greek nymph’s tragic fate. When they sail to the Azores Islands, her mother tells her that the ful­fill­ment of her des­tiny rests with Diogo, the shipowner’s son. But Eva sees a vision of another...

When the ship founders off the Azores, Tristan, a young Azorean, saves her. Destined to be with Diogo and aching for Tristan’s for­bid­den love, Eva must some­how choose between them, or fate will soon choose for her.

This is an engross­ing novel in which sev­eral strands of myth com­bine to cre­ate a com­plex yet beau­ti­fully sim­ple romance. It is at its high­est level an explo­ration of fun­da­men­tal philo­soph­i­cal questions—the debate between fate and choice, the nature of love and desire, the tena­cious and often dan­ger­ous hold of belief on the human psy­che. At bot­tom, and the rea­son why you will love it, this is a bil­dungsro­man about a girl find­ing her way to adult­hood and a story about two lovers both sep­a­rated and entwined by their beliefs.

I just blogged on how I went about researching the islands (my book is set in the 1890s). Feel free to take a look.

http://mmbennetts.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/researching-the-azores-c...