About the AuthorLucinda Riley (born c.1966 Lucinda Edmonds, in Lisburn, Northern Ireland) is an Irish author of popular historical fiction and a former actress. She spent the first few years of her life in the village of Drumbeg near Belfast before moving to England. At age 14 she moved to London to a specialist drama and ballet school. At 16 she got her first major television role in the BBC adaptation of The Story of the Treasure Seekers, followed shortly afterwards by a memorable guest role in Auf Wiedersehen Pet. She remained a working actress for the next seven years, also marrying, but her career was interrupted by a long bout of mononucleosis at age 23. This caused her to turn to writing, and her first novel Lovers and Players was published in 1992. In 2016 producer Raffaella De Laurentiis purchased the television rights to her five-novel series Seven Sisters.Author : Lucinda RileyLanguage : EnglishDescThe first book in a series from #1 internationally bestselling author Lucinda Riley, author of The Midnight Rosehailed 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, Atlantisa fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Genevahaving been told that their beloved father, who adopted them all as babies, has died. Each sister is handed a tantalizing clue to her true heritagea 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. Izabelapassionate and longing to see the worldconvinces 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 lossthe first in a unique, spellbinding seriesLucinda Riley showcases her storytelling talents like never before.Number of Pages : 480