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Unknown, 1999
Current format, Unknown, 1999, 1st ed., No Longer Available.
Unknown, 1999
Current format, Unknown, 1999, 1st ed., No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formats
In the midst of their glittering world is a modern-day Cinderella, Djuna Cortez who inherits an apartment in Paris, a winery in the Loire, and the art collection of painter Joaquim Carlos Cortez. Djuna is the artist's long-lost granddaughter.Caught up in the whirl of Parisian high society, Djuna falls in love with a vintner who seems to be the man of her dreams. Secretly he plots to control Djuna and her fortune.Djuna seeks solace in her grandfather's journals. Joaquim Carlos came to Paris frown Spain in the 1930s. Beautiful women beg him to paint their portraits. Despite his glittering life, Joaquim Carlos cannot ignore the advancing Nazis and at last acts to save himself, his art, and his son.Drawing courage from her grandfather's trials, Djuna summons the strength to reclaim her freedom, her sanity, and her grandfather's legacy.
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