The House Of The Red Balconies

Download or read book The House of the Red Balconies written by A.J. Demas and published by Sexton's Cottage Books. This book was released on 2024-06-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hylas has come to the island of Tykanos to build an aqueduct. He is not interested in the island’s main attraction: the pleasure houses where polished courtesans both female and male offer tea and elegant conversation. Until he finds himself renting a room in one of the tea houses and meeting his neighbour, the courtesan Zo. Over breakfasts in Zo’s garden, the two men strike up a friendship that transforms the isolation of their lives. But Hylas’s aqueduct project is threatened by bureaucratic delays, and Zo needs to secure a rich patron to help support his failing house. Just when they have begun to hope that they have found a home together, will the world force them apart?