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"Someone killed Richard. Now Richard wants to know why."
New England, 1887. The millionaire William Knight is brutally murdered. His grandson, Richard, the only witness, is shocked into silence, and then disappears, presumed kidnapped and killed.
Switzerland, 1905. Alexander von Reisden, "intellectual, immoral, and unstable," is "recognized" as Richard. Despite Reisden's insistence, he's not Richard, he is drawn into the affairs of the Knight family,...
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Perdita Halley, a young woman who has turned down the proposal of Alexander von Reisden, fearing marriage would impede her music career, instead begins a passionate, clandestine affair with him in Paris in 1910, until an American acquaintance arrives and turns gossip into scandal.
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Paris, 1911. Andre du Monde, director of a famous horror theater, has married a young girl from the country. As a child, Andre experienced something terrible. Now he can't be close to anyone except by frightening them.His wife is frightened too. Because Andre keeps telling her she's going to poison him...Alexander von Reisden, doctor to the mad and Andre's friend, seems to have outlived his own terrible past. He has a wife and a son, and work he loves....
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The Titanic was a white ship...once.Now? Rock the boat.It's 1912. America is the land of Jim Crow and lynchings, and a young society woman has just discovered that her grandfather, the grandfather she barely knows, may be passing for white.She has a family. She has a son. She can't be black. She doesn't know how.She follows him onto the biggest, newest, safest ship in the world, to find a truth she can live with.But after the iceberg, she finds that...
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