Kaleidoscope
Danielle SteelWhen a beautiful young Frenchwoman and a brilliant American actor meet
in wartime Paris, their love begins like a fairy tale but ends in
tragedy. Suddenly orphaned, their three children are cruelly separated.
Megan, the baby, adopted by a family of comfortable means, becomes
a doctor in the rural Appalachia. Alexandra, raised in lavish wealth,
marries a powerful man whose pride is in his pedigree and who assumes
that Alexandra is her parents' natural offspring. Neither of them has
the remotest suspicion that she is adopted, or what turbulent tragedy
lurks in her past. And Hilary, oldest of the Walker children,
remembers them all, and the grief that tore them apart and cast them
into separate lives. Feeling the loss throughout her life, and unable
to find her sisters, she builds an extraordinary career and has no
personal life.
When John Chapman, lawyer and prestigious
private investigator, is asked to find these three women, he wonders
why. Their parents' only friend, he did nothing to keep them
together as children and has been haunted by remorse all his life. The
investigator follows a trail that leads from chic New York to Boston
slums, from elegant Parisian salons to the Appalachian hills, to the
place where the three sisters face each other and one more final,
devastating truth before they can move on.