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　　Spain. A land of eternal passion and unceasing bloodshed. From the vengeance of a pitiless tyrant, four women flee the sacred, once-safe walls of a convent: LUCIA, the proud survivor harboring a murderous secret from the savage clan wars of Sicily...GRACIELLA, the beauty still unpurged of guilt from one reckless, youthful sin...MEGAN, the orphan seeking perilous refuge in the arms of a defiant Basque rebel...and TERESA, the believer haunted by a faith that mocks her with silence. Leaving innocence but not hope behind, they venture into an alien, dazzling world, where each will encounter an unexpected destiny -- and the truth about herself.

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Best known today for his exciting blockbuster novels, SidneySheldon is the author of The Best Laid Plans, Nothing LastsForever, The Stars Shine Down, The Doomsday Conspiracy, Memories ofMidnight, The Sands of Time, Windmills of the Gods, If TomorrowComes, Master of the Game, Rage of Angels, Bloodline, A Stranger inthe Mirror, and The Other Side of Midnight. Almost all have beennumber-one international bestsellers. His first book, The NakedFace, was acclaimed by the New York Times as "the best firstmystery of the year" and received an Edgar Award. Most of hisnovels have become major feature films or TV miniseries, and thereare more than 275 million copies of his books in print throughoutthe world.

Best known today for his exciting blockbuster novels, Sidney
Sheldon is the author of The Best Laid Plans, Nothing Lasts
Forever, The Stars Shine Down, The Doomsday Conspiracy, Memories of
Midnight, The Sands of Time, Windmills of the Gods, If Tomorrow
Comes, Master of the Game, Rage of Angels, Bloodline, A Stranger in
the Mirror, and The Other Side of Midnight. Almost all have been
number-one international bestsellers. His first book, The Naked
Face, was acclaimed by the New York Times as "the best first
mystery of the year" and received an Edgar Award. Most of his
novels have become major feature films or TV miniseries, and there
are more than 275 million copies of his books in print throughout
the world. 
 
Before he became a novelist, Sidney Sheldon had already won a Tony
Award for Broadway's Redhead and an Academy Award for The Bachelor
and the Bobby Soxer. He has written the screenplays for
twenty-three motion pictures, including Easter Parade (with Judy
Garland) and Annie Get Your Gun. In addition, he penned six other
Broadway hits and created three long-running television series,
including Hart to Hart and I Dream of Jeannie, which he also
produced. A writer who has delighted millions with his
award-winning plays, movies, novels, and television shows, Sidney
Sheldon reigns as one of the most popular storytellers of all
time.

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"Enormously entertaining...delightful"
-- Chattanooga Times

"Enormously entertaining...delightful" 
-- Chattanooga Times 
 
"Big, broad splashes of action and crude but colorful characters
are Sheldon's trademarks, as he demonstrates again in a new novel
probably destined to join Windmills of the Gods and Rage of Angels
on the bestseller list. The backdrop for this romantic adventure
story is the conflict between Basque nationalists and a repressive
Spanish government in the post-Franco years. Pitted against each
other in a fight to the death are charismatic Basque guerrilla
leader Jaime Miro and corrupt, sadistic Colonel Acoca. When Acoca
brutally sacks a convent in search of Miro, four nuns escape at the
urging of Sister Lucia, who has been hiding in the cloister since
taking vengeance on the men who put her Mafioso father behind bars.
Beautiful Sister Graciela, tomboyish, orphaned Sister Megan and
Sister Teresa, who is teetering toward a breakdown, flee into the
forest with Lucia, where they are grudgingly befriended by Miro and
his gang. Before crossing Spain to a rendezvous point, the group
splits up to more safely evade an increasingly enraged Colonel
Acoca. Lucia's predicament presents an amusing counterpoint to
suspense, as Rubio, the simple peasant who accompanies her, kindly
explains worldly activities to a woman who knows a great deal more
than he does. Not a breath of subtlety touches these pages, but
goodwill and lively subplots move the book along at a spirited
pace." 
-- Publishers Weekly

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