A NATION DIVIDED BY POWER AND PASSIONParis, 1789--the time is ripe for revolution. In the glittering court ofLouis XVI, the extravagance of the rich grows more outrageous every day.While in the streets, the restless crowds gather like dark clouds, whippedby rumor and rhetoric, as the storm of change breaks over the Bastille....SOPHIE LUTRELL...She left England with romantic dreams of glittering ballsand handsome suitors only to discover the perils of a nation bitterlydivided and an affair that will change her from a girl into a woman.HELOISE DE GUINOT... Sophie's French cousin, she was the daughter of powerand privilege until the revolution stripped her of everything and made herthe target of the vengeful mob both for who she is--and who she loves.MARIE-VICTOIRE BONNARD... Heloise's loyal maid and trusted confidant, shewas bound to serve but burned for freedom, even as her involvement with ayoung radical threatened to consume her in flames.Sophie, Heloise, and Marie-Victoire--they were the daughters of thestorm--and this is their story: a sweeping, breathtaking saga of threeremarkable women whose lives would be forever intertwined by the turbulentforces of history and their own passionate struggle for love, liberty, andlife.