Kaleidoscope

The Story

When a beautiful young Frenchwoman and a brilliant Americanááactor meet in wartime Paris, their love begins like a fairy tale butááends in tragedy. Suddenly orphaned, their threeááchildren are cruelly separated. Megan, the baby,ááadopted by a family of comfortable means, becomes aáádoctor in the rural Appalachia. Alexandra, raised in lavishááwealth, marries a powerful man whose pride is inááhis pedigree and who assumes that Alexandra is her parents'áánatural offspring. Neither of them has the remotest suspicionááthat she is adopted, or what turbulent tragedy lurks in her past.áá And Hilary, oldest of the Walkerááchildren, remembers them all, and the grief that tore themáá apart and cast them into separate lives. Feeling the lossááthroughout her life, and unable to find her sisters, she builds an extraordinaryáácareer and has no personal life.ááWhen John Chapman, lawyer and prestigious privateááinvestigator, is asked to find these three women, he wonders why.ááTheir parents' only friend, he did nothing to keep them togetherááas children and has been haunted by remorse all his life.ááThe investigator follows a trail that leads fromááchic New York to Boston slums, from elegantááParisian salons to the Appalachian hills, to the place whereááthe three sisters face each other and one more final, devastatingáátruth before they can move on.