and had many children with the various Gods who were fascinated by their strength, beauty and ethereal air of mysticism. As Star learns more of Flora's incredible journey, she too goes on a voyage of discovery, finally stepping out of the shadow of her sister and opening herself up to the possibility of love.

Star D'Aplièse, in her late twenties, is at a crossroads in her life after the sudden death of her beloved father – the elusive billionaire, named Pa Salt by his six daughters, all adopted by him from the four corners of the world. The book mentions a lot of different pieces of music – do you find that having a ‘soundtrack’ to a novel helps create a sense of atmosphere?

The headstrong leader whose fearless nature will be tested – from the Greek Islands and the ‘Fastnet’ sailing race back to the icy beauty of Christiania, the old capital of Norway, and Leipzig in the late 1800’s. This is the second in a series about glamorous adopted sisters brought up in a castle on Lake Geneva. Daily Mail The Storm Sister is like a literary musical score - crashing waves, staccato heartstopping moments and a crescendo waiting in the wings. She is happy and secure in her home in the Lake District, living close to her idol, Beatrix Potter, when machinations outside her control lead her to London, and the home of one of Edwardian society’s most notorious players, Alice Keppel. The silent one who must find her voice – set in London and Edwardian England, featuring Royal scandals and Beatrix Potter in the beautiful Lake District.

Following on from the bestselling The Seven Sisters and The Storm Sister, The Shadow Sister is the third book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding series of love and loss, inspired by the mythology of the Seven Sisters constellation. Ally D’Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world’s most dangerous yacht races when she learns of her adoptive father’s sudden, mysterious death. There, Ally begins to discover her roots and her inextricable connection to a young unknown singer, Anna Landvik, who lived over a hundred years ago and sang in the first performance of Grieg’s iconic music set to Ibsen’s playPeer Gynt. Ally and Anna both deal with many different kinds of grief throughout their fictional journeys – did you identify with their reactions to their circumstances? The world is sadly still not a perfect place, and I doubt it ever will be, because there will always be a new challenge ahead.There, Ally begins to discover her roots – and how her story is inextricably bound to that of a young unknown singer, Anna Landvik, who lived there over a hundred years before, and sang in the first performance of Grieg’s iconic music set to Ibsen’s play ‘Peer Gynt’. Following the bestselling The Seven Sisters, The Storm Sister is the second book in Lucinda Riley's epic saga of love and loss, inspired by the mythology of the Seven Sisters constellation. Ally has also recently embarked on a deeply passionate love affair that will change her destiny forever. Ally D'Aplièse, in her early thirties, is about to compete in one of the world's most perilous yacht races when she hears the news of her adoptive father's sudden, mysterious death. When Ally discovers her musical heritage, it re-awakens her creativity and her passion for playing the flute.

How does Pa Salt’s quote for Ally, ‘In moments of weakness, you will find your greatest strength,’ affect and aid her decisions on her journey? When I first had the idea of writing a series of books based on The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades, I had no idea where it would lead me. As Ally learns more about Anna, she also starts to question who her father really was—and why the seventh sister is missing. And I wanted to celebrate the achievements of women, especially in the past, where so often, their contribution to making our world the place it is today has been overshadowed by the more frequently documented achievements of men. Some say they were the Seven Mothers who seeded our earth – there is no doubt that, in their stories, they were all highly fertile!But, when machinations outside of her control lead her to the London home of one of Edwardian society's most notorious players, Flora is pulled between passionate love and duty to her family. How well do Ally and the other characters correspond in the modern day to their mythological counterparts? And then there is Pa Salt, the sisters’ enigmatic father, his character only seen through the eyes of his grieving daughters after he dies. How do you feel about Pip’s initial lack of understanding towards how Karine and other Jews were treated leading up the World War II? Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she discovers that her father – an elusive billionaire affectionately known to his daughters as Pa Salt – has left each of them a tantalising clue to their true heritage.

But the timing is bad: Ally had only recently embarked on a deeply passionate love affair, but with her life now turned upside down, she opts to leave the open seas and follow the trail that her father left her, leading her to the icy beauty of Norway. There, Ally begins to discover her roots – and how her story is inextricably bound to that of a young unknown singer, Anna Landvik, who lived there over a hundred years before, and sang in the first performance of Grieg's iconic music set to Ibsen's play 'Peer Gynt'. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she discovers that her father – an elusive billionaire affectionately known to his daughters as Pa Salt – has left each of them a tantalizing clue to their true heritage. He has left each of them a clue to their true heritage, but Star – the most enigmatic of the sisters – is hesitant to step out of the safety of the close relationship she shares with her sister CeCe.Star D’Aplièse is at a crossroads in her life after the sudden death of her beloved father – the elusive billionaire, named Pa Salt by his six daughters, all adopted by him from the four corners of the world. And above all, the one gift that is more important than any other, and has kept us humans alive throughout unbearable suffering: HOPE. Rushing back to her family home to meet her five sisters, she discovers that her father—an elusive billionaire affectionately known to his daughters as Pa Salt—has left each of his daughters a beguiling clue to their true heritage. She was born in Ireland and divided her time between England and West Cork with her husband and four children. Following the bestselling The Seven Sisters, The Storm Sister is the second book in Lucinda Riley’s spellbinding series based loosely on the mythology surrounding the famous star constellation.