Riley not only had a brand spanking new book coming out but that this novel was the start of a seven book series (*brain explodes with happiness*)! Well, imagine my immense pleasure when I discovered that Ms. You know when you find an author you LOVE and you instantly go out and buy every book they've written right after reading the first book because you are so excited to read more from the author? That was me after reading Lucinda Riley's novel The Lavender Garden (you can click the title to read my review). When the old woman’s caretaker secretly slips Maia a stack of old letters, an astonishing family history unfolds.
Together, they delve into her complex family history, a quest that is helped by their discovery of the crumbling mansion where an elderly woman – Maia’s biological grandmother - is on the verge of death. In Rio, Maia is accompanied by Floriano Quintelas, a novelist and amateur historian, who is intrigued to discover that Maia is apparently descended from the Aires Cabrals, an aristocratic Portuguese family who have been prominent in the country for the past two centuries. But spurred by her father’s final bequest, Maia embarks on a journey to Rio de Janeiro to discover the truth of her origins. Until now, Maia has constructed her life so that she does not have to leave the safety of the family nest. Their father has left each of his daughters a simple clue about her birthplace. Confusion is added to her grief when the sisters - Maia, the beauty Ally, the leader Star, the peacemaker CeCe, the pragmatist Tiggy, the nurturer and Electra, the fireball – gather to hear the reading of the will. Maia, the eldest, is the first to learn of their adoptive father’s death. Each of the sisters had been adopted at birth from a different part of the globe. Upon the death of their wealthy, enigmatic father, Maia D’Apliese and her sisters convene at their family home, a secluded estate on the shores of Lake Geneva. THE SEVEN SISTERS takes readers from the shores of Lake Geneva to modern day Rio de Janeiro to bohemian Paris of the 1920s in a sweeping saga of passion, sacrifice, and the enduring power of art. Internationally bestselling author Lucinda Riley returns with THE SEVEN SISTERS, the first novel in a spellbinding new series (seven books in all) inspired by the ancient myth of the Seven Sisters of Pleiades.
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