Fires over Constantinople
A sweeping, heartrending Byzantine historical novel about faith and survival, a hidden relic, family betrayal, a wartime sacrifice, an impossible choice, and the letter that outlasts an empireBy Eleni A. Kouris
Length7h 52m
About this audiobook
Her father's last icon was hollow. And inside the wood, something was burning.
In a city of barking dogs and gathering smoke, Theodora grinds pigment by candlelight, trying to finish the painting that killed her father.
The Panagia's robe must be the color a woman sees when she closes her eyes after weeping.
She has never been able to match it.
But tonight she discovers something else: a seam in the back of the panel, too straight to be natural, with something loose and crackling hidden inside.
Before she can pry it open, the fist falls on her door.
"You're grinding pigment at dawn," her brother Andreas says, filling the frame like he fills every doorway.
"I'm finishing my father's icon before the Patriarch's men seal the church."
"He was delirious with fever. He didn't know what he was saying."
"He knew. He said it to Theodora, and to no one else. You were standing in the doorway. You heard him."
The icon was a dying man's gift to his daughter. To everyone else in Constantinople, it is something to be seized, sold, or burned.
There is a blind monk who sees far too much.
There is a splinter with a true name and a terrible price.
There is a Venetian offer from a sister, and a library hidden beneath a mosque.
There is fire coming from the sea, and a covenant that binds Theodora's family across generations.
As the walls of the empire blaze and the iconoclasts close in, Theodora guards a secret hidden in a single plank of walnut, a relic worth more than her life and the lives of everyone she loves.
To protect what her father entrusted to her, she must choose what to save and what to surrender to the flames.
And carry a letter, and a truth, across a lifetime of ash.
Fires over Constantinople is a sweeping, heartrending Byzantine historical novel about faith and survival, a hidden relic, family betrayal, a wartime sacrifice, an impossible choice, and the letter that outlasts an empire.
Perfect for readers who love richly atmospheric historical fiction, women who guard dangerous secrets, faith under fire, and the sweeping emotion of Kate Quinn, Kristin Hannah, and Madeline Miller. A standalone historical novel.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, General Fiction
Length7 hrs 52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Dedication
3Chapter 1 - The Lock of Hair I Promised to Keep
4Chapter 2 - A Splinter the Size of a Needle
5Chapter 3 - The Blind Monk Who Saw Too Much
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6Chapter 4 - What I Saw in the Flame
7Chapter 5 - The Price of One Splinter
8Chapter 6 - The Dyer’s Daughter and the Ash-Grey Silk
9Chapter 7 - My Husband’s New Prayer
10Chapter 8 - The Splinter Burns Twice
11Chapter 9 - The Man Who Was My Son
12Chapter 10 - The Fire That Came from the Sea
13Chapter 11 - What Remains After the Ashes Cool
14Chapter 12 - The Island of the Broken Icons
15Chapter 13 - My Sister’s Venetian Offer
16Chapter 14 - The Library Under the Mosque
17Chapter 15 - The Fire That Follows Me
18Chapter 16 - The Splinter’s True Name
19Chapter 17 - What We Do Not Burn Ourselves
20Chapter 18 - The Grammarian and the Splinter
21Chapter 19 - My Uncle’s Covenant
22Chapter 20 - The Last Iconographer of the Doukai
23Chapter 21 - A History Written in Ash
24Chapter 22 - The Road to Damascus
25Chapter 23 - The Fire That Ended
26About the Author
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