Maia D\u2019Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, \u201cAtlantis\u201d\u2014a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva\u2014having been told that their beloved father, who adopted them all as babies, has died. Each of them is handed a tantalizing clue to her true heritage\u2014a clue which 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 and its beginnings.<\/p>\n
Eighty years earlier in Rio\u2019s Belle Epoque of the 1920s, Izabela Bonifacio\u2019s 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\u2014passionate and longing to see the world\u2014convinces her father to allow her to accompany him and his family to Europe before she is married. There, at Paul Landowski\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
In this sweeping, epic tale of love and loss\u2014the first in a unique, spellbinding series of seven novels\u2014Lucinda Riley showcases her storytelling talent like never before.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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