The Seven Sisters

At their childhood home, "Atlantis," a magnificent, remote castle located on the banks of Lake Geneva, Maia D'Apliese and her five sisters convene after learning of the passing of their cherished father, who had adopted them all as infants. A mysterious clue that leads to Maia's real ancestry is given to each of them, and it transports her to a dilapidated home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She starts piecing together her story's origins once she gets there.

Izabela Bonifacio's father, who lived in Rio during the 1920s Belle Epoque, had dreams of his daughter marrying into the nobility eighty years earlier. Heitor da Silva Costa, the architect, is now working on designs for a massive monument he hopes to name Christ the Redeemer. He will soon visit Paris in order to locate the ideal sculptor to finish his vision. Izabela, driven by her desire to travel, persuades her father to let her go with him and his family to Europe before to her marriage. She meets ambitious young artist Laurent Brouilly there, in Paul Landowski's workshop and in the buzzing, lively cafés of Montparnasse, and she instantly realizes that her life will never be the same again.

The first of a singular, captivating series of seven books, Linda Riley tells a sweeping, epic narrative of love and grief that displays her writing prowess like never before.