The Ghost of Eros

By Eve Fisher

Land. Women. Wealth. Rivals. Love. Death. Sometimes art imitates life; sometimes it burns it to the ground.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Release date: Jan 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9781479465682

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THE GHOST OF EROS, by Eve Fisher

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Copyright © 2021 by Eve Fisher.

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THE GHOST OF EROS,

by Eve Fisher

In thirty years, the village of Los Reyes went from a little fishing village to a popular expat/tourist center. Hotels, condos, and bungalows ate up the beach, while shops, restaurants and bars swallowed up the Old Quarter, which wasn’t nearly the loss some people said it was. Doug Benson owned the one prime piece of land not yet covered by condos or hotels. He’d bought it back when he really couldn’t afford three tumble-down beach shacks. As he grew richer, he’d transformed them into two cottages and his own comfortable home. He’d been offered ever-increasing sums of money for the property, but he rejected them all.

He has money, George Ortiz, Benson’s investment manager, told wishful purchasers, especially Monckton Powys of Intercontinental Hotels. He doesn’t need any more. It was an idea the hotelier would not, could not comprehend.

"I did not tell him that you might succumb to the lure of art," George told Doug as they sat drinking on the deck one afternoon.

I wouldn’t, Doug objected.

"If you were offered Monet’s Waterlilies? Or Guernica’"

"Guernica? It’d give me nightmares. And Waterlilies needs a whole museum. Doug watched as his wife Vicky came up the path from the beach. Maybe the Chagalls in Nice," he