Author Description

Hassan Elsayed wants to find himself and follow his dreams--at fifty-four, he's about two decades too late, but who's counting, really? He's left his hometown of Luxor, Egypt for Athens, Greece, and fulfilled his lifelong dream of becoming a writer. Now, he's hungry for love. The woman he's loved for half his life has married someone else. When Hassan meets a beautiful nineteen-year-old boy one summer, their attraction and chemistry are instant, insistent, and impossible to ignore. But it's his first time with another man, and Hassan is terrified to step into this new fire. Will he let himself be engulfed by the flames? Will he open his heart to this unlikely love he never saw coming? Set in the lush, sun-drenched Mediterranean summer, to the backdrop of the ancient ruins of Athens, Book of the Flower Garlands weaves a warm, romantic story of sex, sensual pleasures, first loves and first times.