Cassandra Nights

ETHEL McGRAWRY grew up between Scotland and Belgium, surrounded by music, stories and contradictions. Fascinated by the emotional complexity of desire, freedom and human relationships, she writes sensual fiction that places women's experiences, emotions and choices at its centre.Rather than traditional erotic fiction built around male fantasy, her novels explore passion, emotional dependency, freedom, loneliness and the dangerous attraction of intensity itself.Cassandra NIGHTS is her most intimate and emotionally charged novel so far.CASSANDRA NIGHTSAntwerp. Early eighties.Elisabeth's future already seems perfectly planned:a safe teaching career,a respectable marriage,a predictable life.Until Robert McGrawy enters it.Charismatic, brilliant and dangerously restless, the Scottish music producer pulls her into a seductive world of underground clubs, rising rock bands, excess, desire and emotional chaos. What begins as attraction slowly becomes something far more consuming.As fame, addiction and ambition begin destroying everyone around them, Elisabeth finds herself trapped between safety and passion, stability and freedom, love and self-destruction.But the real danger is not Robert himself.It is the version of herself she becomes when she is with him.Darkly sensual, emotionally charged and set against the intoxicating music scene of the early eighties, The Cassandra Syndrome is a haunting novel about desire, identity and the addictive power of emotional intensity.