Immortality could be a lonely lifestyle, especially when the world is about to implode.

For over six hundred years, Darius of Agremon has fought wars on behalf of those that needed his skills in combat. Like a lechagos on Strongili, he spends his days commanding the Minoan coastguardsmen against pirates and marauders. His evenings are spent by itself, for despite having had wives in the past, he has watched them all grow old and expire, childless, as he is constantly on the live.

Therefore when he senses immortality on the subject of Stella of Akrotiri: Origins within an olive farmer’s young girl, Darius bargains to consider her to wife when she is old enough to marry.

A foundling, Stella works in her adoptive father’s olive orchard above Akrotiri, climbing the ancient trees and shrubs to prune also to harvest the strings of pearls off their branches. She doubts invaders when she watches flaming arrows arc in the sky, an indicator the island is definitely under attack. She worries about how the bottom quakes beneath her feet and steam erupts from breaks in the ground. She wonders at the unusual tingling sensation she encounters whenever Darius of Agremon is definitely near, a sensation not unlike the main one she feels when hanging out in the oldest trees.

Unacquainted with the agreement her father offers made out of the lechagos, Stella feels she has been sold into slavery when Darius comes to claim her. Her youngsters has been spent admiring the man who helped her father’s olive business thrive. Right now she has just contempt for him and his hard-headed way.

While the globe trembles and a volcano threatens to destroy the island of Strongili, these two will have to forge a relationship that will last far much longer when compared to a lifetime-one that must endure a long time as well as the disaster that’s about to get rid of the only home Stella has ever known.