About Ariadne's Dream:
On a whim, Ariadne Hatzidakis leaves Montreal for the the land of her forebears -- and a trap set for her by the old Greek gods, who prefer to play tricks on the solitary, those no one will miss. The lover they present her with is Death, in the guise of Yannis Vissinos, a fallen musician whose only fidelity is to heroin, his "white bride".

After the gravest of his betrayals, Ariadne escapes to the love island, Nysas whose seasonal depravities have earned it the title The Island of Sodom and Gomorrah in the newspapers of Athens. She works as a waitress in a jazz club, The Scat, hoping to be rescued by a man she has only seen in her dreams or by Yannis, who has less noble plans for her.

The odds are against Ariadne, but the gods are beginning to wish that they'd hedged their bets.

About Tess Fragoulis:
Tess Fragoulis was born in Heraklion, Crete and grew up in Montreal, Quebec, where she currently lives. In 1983, she returned to her homeland, where she encountered all manner of gods and monsters, who appear in various incarnations in Ariadne's Dream, her first novel. She fully expects at least a few of them to appear at her door any day now.

Fragoulis' ongoing obsessions are love, sex, death, and exile. She is fascinated by the unconscious paths we follow that create the pattern of our lives, as well as our personal superstitions and mythologies. She is also interested in taking the most absurd, tragic and potent moments from life and pushing them to their fictional extremes.

Her first book, Stories to Hide from Your Mother, garnered a small stack of good reviews, a nomination from the Quebec Writer's Federation for Best First Book, and enough readers to start a respectably-sized cult. One of the stories has been adapted for the erotic TV series, Bliss. A French translation of the collection will be published in 2003 by Les Herbes Rouges.