This is the last page of my book... I didn't want to forget everything that happened when the Greeks lived in the City, just before it turned Turkish... Everything I say is the absolute truth, written by me, Anna Palaiologina Notara, the last empress of the Greeks...

1453. A few months before the siege of Constantinople begins, Emperor Constantine Palaiologos secretly marries his third and last wife, Anna Notara, daughter of his prime minister. She has accepted the marriage, but has betrayed her great love, Venetian Marino Kontarini, a commander of the imperial guard. A few days after the wedding, the emperor will exile her from the City and Anna will end up in Venice, believing that she has lost both her husband and her beloved in the fall. But fate has many surprises in store for her.

Thanos Kondylis portrays with unparalleled vividness the tragic story of the last and forgotten empress of Byzantium, Anna Palaiologina Notara. A woman who experienced absolute love amidst the turmoil of dramatic events that would lead to the fall of the Byzantine Empire. She spent almost half of her life in self-exile in Venice, where she followed the call of her soul and dedicated herself to the service of her people, the thousands of refugees from Greece and Constantinople.

An inspired story filled with the lyricism of love, the scent of Byzantine Constantinople, and the eternal symbols of Hellenism.