Saffron eventually manages to visit Crete and spends time getting to know her family. Through them she meets their friends, Vasilis, Cathy and their son, Vasi.
Nicola is in New Orleans with her family, where she moves on to University after finishing High School. At the weekends she works in a diner to make her pocket money for when she visits Elounda during her summer vacation.
Following a tragedy of his own making, Todd sees Nicola as the salvation from his guilty conscience. He longs for Nicola to notice him and reject John. His desire for Nicola to become dependent upon him becomes an obsession; finally making him follow her to Elounda where events take a drastic and dangerous turn.