The end of Venetian rule and the beginning of Ottoman rule find Crete in turmoil. It is an era of wars, battles, insecurity, and anarchy. In these conditions that break up families, destroy fortunes, and ruin lives, people are not just trying to adapt, but also to live.

They carve their own paths, chase their dreams, test and are tested by their ambitions, try to keep their values intact, bring new lives into the world, and bid farewell to their dead. However, love is not absent from their lives. And this love leads them down uncharted paths.

The author provides us with a fascinating glimpse into a Rethymnian society in transition, seeking its balances. Its characters move in familiar places and although they come from the depths of history, they "come alive" before us with flesh and bones.

Above all, however, this is a book that speaks of love. A love that refuses to succumb to the conventions of the time, that shatters moral codes, that surpasses the dividing lines that people establish with their actions, that defies religions and races. This is the world of the new book by Lefki Sarantinou, "Leon & Hemiselenos".