The first book in a series from #1 internationally bestselling author
Lucinda Riley, author of The Midnight Rose--hailed as "an extraordinary
story [and] a complex, deeply engaging tale filled with fascinating
characters" (Library Journal).Maia D'Apliese and her five sisters gather
together at their childhood home, "Atlantis"--a fabulous, secluded
castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva--having been told that
their beloved father, who adopted them all as babies, has died. Each
sister is handed a tantalizing clue to her true heritage--a clue that
takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. Once there, she begins to put together the pieces of her story.
Eighty years earlier in the Rio of the 1920s, Izabela Bonifacio's father
has aspirations for his daughter to marry into the aristocracy.
Meanwhile, architect Heitor da Silva Costa is devising plans for an
enormous statue, to be called Christ the Redeemer, and will soon travel
to Paris to find the right sculptor to complete his vision.
Izabela--passionate and longing to see the world--convinces her father
to allow her to accompany him and his family to Europe before she is
married. There, at Paul Landowski's studio and in the heady, vibrant
cafes of Montparnasse, she meets ambitious young sculptor Laurent
Brouilly, and knows at once that her life will never be the same again.
In this sweeping, epic tale of love and loss--the first in a unique,
spellbinding series--Lucinda Riley showcases her storytelling talents
like never before.
