Pello Island: Cassia by A.L. Jambor

A.L. Jambor’s Pello Island Cassia

FANTASY FICTION

Cassia, the young daughter of a wealthy Roman merchant, seems destined to live under her father’s thumb until the day she dies.  Her fate is changed, however, the day she meets Darius – a nobleman whose addiction to gambling has left him in dire straits.  They fall in love, but Darius’ father forbids a marriage. Cassia, under the spell of first love cannot let him go. She goes to him, and their reunion ends in tragedy.  Darius is falsely accused of murder and sent to Pello Island, a prison colony south of Sicily, and Cassia vows to join him there in six months.

Two thousand years later, Cassia and Darius are still alive and living in upstate New York. Their souls have been recycled over and over into the bodies of recently deceased mortals, and they should have fulfilled their destinies long ago. Darius, whose fear of eternal death fills him with paralyzing fear has been unable to comply with a rule governing his destiny, and now the gods, hoping to finish the mortals’ time on Earth, are manipulating events to force Darius to comply.

What happened to Cassia and Darius on Pello Island? Why were they placed in different bodies many times over for two thousand years? Will the gods’ plan work, forcing Darius to
fulfill his destiny once and for all?

Pello Island Cassia is the first book of the Pello Island series, which concludes with Darius Pello Island 2, is also available in digital or paperback.