Eleni Darzenta

"Many happy returns, Eleni…"
The candles on the cake seemed too many to her. Cavafy’s cursed poem came to her mind…

…Before me are my burning candles.
I don’t want to turn around and be horrified to see how quickly the dark line lengthens, how quickly the spent candles multiply.

Eleni Aivatoglou Darzenta…
Chairwoman of the Darzenta Group.
Owner of the Arzu fashion house.
Around her is a world that bows before her. Even her three children.
She, however, fears her past.
The heavy secrets that, if revealed,
will crush her. Her persecutors will make sure of that…