Summer Heat

<p><i><b>''Every woman must be nourished by an inner reservoir of secrets...''</b></i><br><br>Melike has it all: a beautiful home in Istanbul, a career as an art historian, an attentive husband. But her yearning for more excitement has led her surreptitiously into the arms of other men. <br><br>On the cusp of her fortieth birthday, Melike is resolute: the affairs must stop. Then she receives a mysterious email from a man named Petro, requesting a tour of Istanbul''s Byzantine churches. Against her better judgement, she accepts.<br><br>As soon as she sees Petro, with his endearing smile and impeccable charm, Melike knows she is in trouble. But she is not the only one keeping secrets. Petro has a hidden agenda of his own ¿ one which, when uncovered, will not only upend Melike''s future, but alter everything she believed about her past...<br><br><i>Set alternately between 2003 and 1974, during the Turkish Army''s invasion of Cyprus, Defne Suman''s third novel to be translated into English