Menina Walker was a child of fortune. Rescued after a hurricane in South
America, doomed to a life of poverty with a swallow medal as her only
legacy, the orphaned toddler was adopted by an American family and taken
to a new life.
As a beautiful, intelligent woman of nineteen, she is in love, engaged,
and excited about the future--until another traumatic event shatters her
dreams. Menina flees to Spain to bury her misery in research for her
college thesis about a sixteenth-century artist who signed his works
with the image of a swallow--the same image as the one on Menina's
medal.
But a mugging strands Menina in a musty, isolated Spanish convent.
Exploring her surroundings, she discovers the epic sagas of five orphan
girls who were hidden from the Spanish Inquisition and received help
escaping to the New World. Is Menina's medal a link to them, or to her
own past? Did coincidence lead her to the convent, or fate?
Both love story and historical thriller, The Sisterhood is an
emotionally charged ride across continents and centuries.