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The Beginning commences with two main characters, to whom I have given their own views and voices. It is how they met and fell in love. A tragedy separates the young lovers and the hero, Hektôr, must save his best friend and future wife, Andromakhé, or die in trying to rescue her. What was love and dedication 3,200 years before we were born? Will love have a happy conclusion? Review by Melanie Archer The Reading Chestnut 'When you serve another this does not mean you are less than human....' This is my favourite quote from the first in a series of books I have recently read by Amarissa Amber Cale. Live, love, laugh then love some more! Is the motto of the author of a series of bronze age romance novels, and this motto shines through her work, her love for the period, love for the characters and the love they have for each other. I have not previously read any historical fiction as I always feared I would get bogged down and confused with all the historical details that had to be in it, and feared that I would struggle with who was who and confuse the tale with my own pre-conceived knowledge of the period and what I thought it would be like. So admittedly I read this with some trepidation. I had no-reason to worry, which is why readers should be open minded when it comes with trying something new. Prince Hektor delivers a high expectation in the first of a series of stories creating an epic saga set in Troy. The author promises to take eleven years of dedicated, complex research into the Trojans and their fall, and make it personal by 'breathing life into where it did not exist before, to know more is to know how they lived.' Although I only know a brief outline of the details of this period in history I trust that the author knows and has an understanding of how the world worked then in order to have let her imagination seep through and make the people of the past people of the present. The beginning of the series is a tale of love; boy meets girl; princess meets pr