An edge-of-your-seat thriller spiced with Milo Manara’s gorgeous erotic sensibility.

Pandora is a beautiful young woman living with her adoptive parents in a major European city. Out of the blue, she learns that her real father might be a terrible mob boss wanted by the international authorities. When she is kidnapped and taken to Turkey, she is forced to confront her dangerous past and investigate the motives of the people closest to her. Vincenzo Cerami, a screenwriter (Roberto Benigni’s international hit "Life is Beautiful"), collaborates here with one of Europe’s greatest artists, Milo Manara.

An edge-of-your-seat international thriller spiced with Milo Manara’s gorgeous erotic sensibility. Pandora is a beautiful young woman living with her adoptive parents in a major European city. Out of the blue, she learns that her real father might be a terrible mob boss wanted by the international authorities. When she is kidnapped and taken to Turkey, she is forced to confront her dangerous past and investigate the motives of the people closest to her. Vincenzo Cerami, a screenwriter (Roberto Benigni’s international hit and Academy Award-winning film Life is Beautiful), collaborates here with one of Europe’s greatest artists, Milo Manara.

Curiosity changed the course of mankind. Pandora was the first mortal woman and the first bride. Zeus gave Pandora a storage jar for a wedding gift which she of course opened. Who wouldn’t? It was a wedding gift, for crying out loud. The evil spirits trapped inside the jar were freed and have wreaked havoc on mankind ever since. Fast forward to today . . . Pandora Jones lives in a modern stone castle stuffed to the roofline with handmade boxes filled with the worries and troubles she collects each night. Trying to atone for her ancestress’ costly mistake leaves no room for friendship, let alone romance. Head God Zeus sends his handsome eldest son to set things right with Pandora, but neglects to tell him who, what, or why. That would take all the fun out of the game–and everyone knows the Olympic gods love their games. Urban fantasy romance.

An edge-of-your-seat thriller spiced with Milo Manara’s gorgeous erotic sensibility.

Pandora’s life changes when an inheritance forces her to confront her past. She is shocked to discover a daughter born in her teens and believed dead, is very much alive. Aided by her new love, the confronting Welsh psychiatrist Bryn Llewellyn, Pandora is consumed by her need to find the girl—only to be rejected. Tragedy reunites the pair in a painful and uneasy relationship… Contemporary Relationships Novel/Women’s Fiction by Janet Woods; originally published by Robert Hale [UK]

Sporting a quizzical nature that renders her famous at Mount Olympus Academy, Pandora is curious about a box in the possession of godboy Epimetheus and cannot resist opening the box when it falls in her lap.