The 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 DApliese 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 Bonifacios 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.