<p><b>''Fascinating & compelling. </b>I loved all four women'' ELODIE HARPER, author of THE WOLF DEN<br><br><b>''MAGNIFICENT</b>...It''s simply too good'' KATIE LOWE, author of THE FURIES<br><br><b>''Utterly compelling</b>'' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE, author of THE MERCIES<br><br><b>___________________________________________</b><br><br><b><i>Vienna, 1912. Behind every painting, there is a story...</i></b><br><br>A new century is dawning. Vienna is at its zenith, an opulent, extravagant city teeming with art, music and radical ideas. It is a place where anything seems possible...<br><br>Edith and Adele are sisters, the daughters of a wealthy bourgeois family. They are expected to follow the rules, to marry well, and produce children. Gertrude is in thrall to her flamboyant older brother. Marked by a traumatic childhood, she envies the freedom he so readily commands. Vally was born into poverty but is making her way in the world as a model for the eminent artist Gustav Klimt.<br><br>Fierc