THE SULTAN'S WOMAN: A Novella

In Victorian England, on the last day of his long life, Richard Sutcliffe tells of his passionate affair with "The Sultan's Woman". When he traveled to a provincial village as a young painter on his first commission, he is fascinated by a beautiful woman who gallops a giant black horse in and out of the sea. Why do villagers call her "The Sultan's Woman" as if it were a curse? Curiosity, pity become a secret love affair that results in murder and obsession. "We had no peace. Only the brutal desire for more and more and more. And again, more…”