Ariadne's brother: A novel on the fall of Bronze Age Crete

A vivid tale of action and the love of life, of conflict and passionate vision and political change at the dawn of Western Civilization. Ariadne---new young Queen of Minoan Crete, beloved of the narrator, Deucalion---struggles to uphold her family's and her people's ways amid threats of natural disaster and military invasion by the Achaian/Mycenean "future Greeks," whose Homeric histories our world knows too well. Did you know that Crete really was/is the longest continuous period of Western cultural development? What happened to bring on a Dark Age? Was it "inevitable," or a matter of choices made and still being made? This is an epic adventure blending myth and new decades of archaeological and other evidence into a story of real people who lived long ago and whose extraordinary legacy is still ours to embrace.