The years have passed, and the heroes of the Meridians of Life, like water in a rushing river, head towards their fateful meeting. The return to the homeland for Vasiliki is a rebirth. But first, she must come face to face with the unspeakable and the unheard of and take back her vows. Only then will the new joys be granted to her. The same harsh process for Ilaria, who, through lost love, discovers great love and, now victorious, manages to utter the closely guarded secrets. Secrets that only a mother can bear to tell and only a mother can bear to hear. And around the two heroines, all the others, their own and strangers, who may not be as foreign as they seem or as they imagine, nor as familiar as they believe and hope, their own and strangers who gallop along with the two women, bound to the chariot of fate. The fate that bound them forever together on the shores of Smyrna, in the Castle of Mytilene, on the peaks of the fir trees of Pindus, in the dark waters of the Bosphorus, in the endless winters of New York, and in the imperial sunsets of Thessaloniki. THE THIRD PART OF THE BELOVED TRILOGY