Between Two Worlds

Elise thought her mother didn’t have any secrets. But when her oldest brother attempts suicide, a dark truth must come to light – a past her mother had never shared with any of her children. A passion for music. Shattered dreams. Betrayal of a sweet but tragic first love. A second chance. Such was Agnieszka's past life amidst the exciting hopeful seventies. Born to immigrant parents weighed down by their roots, Agnieszka takes solace in learning to play the piano, taught by a sympathetic grandaunt who was a concert pianist in Poland.

After heartbreaking losses, Luna craves adventure. An escape into a different world away from her sheltered childhood. Lucien, a young architect and world traveler, finds a stranger’s journal at a café. Despite his pangs of guilt, he’s fascinated and goes on reading. When they meet, Luna is inspired by Lucien’s stories and adventurous spirit to go on a Peace Corps assignment to a rice-growing village in Cambodia. What she finds there defies everything she could ever have imagined. Can she leave this world unscathed?

Innocent in life yet rich in artistry, Clarissa finds herself entangled in an intriguing mystery to uncover a set of stolen illuminated manuscripts. For her, these ancient manuscripts stir tender memories of bedtime stories her mother once read to her, igniting an enduring love for art.