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Fiona is devastated when her husband Charlie commits suicide after the accidental shooting of his friend. Though Fiona decides to keep farming their successful property, rumours that she intends to sell keep circulating. When Detective Burrows arrives to sign off on the investigation into Eddie's death, his suspicions are aroused by some strange anomalies at the scene. As Dave becomes increasingly convinced that something sinister is going on, Fiona finds herself dealing with disasters at the farm.

Life has always been a banquet for Sappho, one to be savored to the fullest. Following a magnificent destiny, her strange and sensual odyssey has carried her to the far corners of the ancient world, from Delphi to Egypt, to the Land of the Amazons, and the realm of Hades. For Sappho, it was always about love—love that seduced her into a plot to depose a dictator, and love that made her trade an unwanted marriage bed of a despised and drunken husband for a seemingly endless series of lovers, both male and female.

Im Rausch und Glanz der Belle Époque begegnet der junge Beamte Jean Gaussin auf einem Kostümfest in Paris dem Künstlermodell Fanny Legrand, genannt "Sappho". Schnell verfällt er der erfahrenen Frau, doch wissen beide, dass ihre Leidenschaft vor allem Leiden schafft. Eindringlich erzählt der französische Schriftsteller Alphonse Daudet das Drama zweier Menschen, die sich lieben und doch bekriegen. Selten sind Liebe und Abneigung, Lust und Qual so tief ineinander verschlungen wie hier. Daudets bedeutendster Roman, erschienen 1884, wird einfühlsam gelesen von Imogen Kogge.