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Dionysos in Tears: A Tale of Destined Love...and Betrayal
Dionysos in Tears A Tale of Destined Loveand Betrayal Author:Charles L. Fontenay When John Lion Deveron meets April McCreagh, a young, beautiful secretary at his newspaper office, a strange fantasy should have warned him that his staid, comfortable (but childless) marriage is endangered. A pleasant summer of luncheons together evolves into only a pattern of family visits, clouded by the disapproval of LionÂ's wife, Cynthia. ... more » But AprilÂ's determination, if unconscious, is not to be deterred by his marriageÂor her own subsequent one. The social and distance barriers to their union seem insurmountable. However, whether or not, as friend Brightwood suggests, some Destiny is involved, their mutual attraction is inexorableÂand Mother wants a grandson. Dissolving the barriers to their consummation involves LionÂ's conversion, by virtue of AprilÂ's poetic fancy, from a rather conservative newsman into a springtime forest god. The conversion successful-at heavy cost-Lion finds that, alas, to trust a woman is to write oneÂ's memoirs in the snow. When their tug of war concludes, he is confronted with the ultimate question: has he won or lost?« less