The Ithaca Curse: A Dark Academia Romance

She came to excavate a shipwreck. She didn't expect to fall for the man everyone on the island swears is cursed to destroy the women who love him.Marine archaeologist Elena Voss arrives on a remote Greek peninsula with one goal: prove that the sonar anomaly in a private cove is the oldest documented shipwreck in the Ionian Sea. It's the one thing that might save a career a falsified accusation just destroyed.She doesn't expect to be met on a dark cliff path by Adrian Mavromilis - last heir of the island's oldest family, and the man the villagers won't stop talking about. Three women who loved a Mavromilis have drowned in his family's cove. He's stopped correcting them, because he's no longer sure they're wrong.What Elena pulls from the water is a Bronze Age dagger inscribed with a name - the same name cut into the stone lintel over Adrian's front door. What she finds inside his house is a locked room built to hold sixteen removed portraits of Mavromilis wives, each dead within a year of a land deal, going back over two hundred years.The curse isn't supernatural. It's worse than that - and it's still running.Every step closer to the truth pulls Elena deeper into a family, a conspiracy, and a man she was never supposed to want. Because the one thing more dangerous than falling for Adrian Mavromilis is being the woman who finally asks why his family's water never gives anyone back.THE ITHACA CURSE is a slow-burn dark romance mystery for readers who love their myths real, their love interests morally gray, and their family secrets buried exactly deep enough to survive a hundred and fifty years - until someone finally starts digging.