The Tolomeis and the Salimbenis were the actual feuding families, from Siena, on whom Shakespeare based the Capulets and Montagues. Giulietta inherits a key to a safe-deposit box in Siena, Italy, accompanied by a letter from her aunt explaining that her mother left a treasure for her which relates to her true identity: Giulietta Tolomei, whose family tree goes all the way back to the original Giulietta and her twin sister Giannozza.
According to her will, Janice inherits Aunt Rose’s entire estate. The children were raised as Julie and Janice Jacobs by Rose and her flamboyant butler Umberto. Sweeping from England to North Africa to Greece and the ruins of Ancient Troy, and navigating between present and past, The Lost Sisterhood is a breathtaking, passionate adventure of two women on parallel journeys, separated by time, who must fight to keep the lives and legacy of the Amazons from being lost forever.In Fortier's debut, the rights to which have been sold in 29 territories around the world, a descendant of Juliet goes to Italy to search for her Romeo.Īs children, twin sisters Giulietta and Giannozza were sent from Italy to live with their great aunt Rose in Virginia after their parents perished in an auto crash. Taking their cue from the inscription, Diana and Nick set out on a daring and dangerous quest for truth that will forever change her world. There she discovers the name of the first Amazon queen, Myrina, who crossed the Mediterranean in a heroic attempt to liberate her kidnapped sisters from Greek pirates, only to become embroiled in the most famous conflict of the ancient world-the Trojan War. Travelling to North Africa, Diana teams up with Nick Barrán, an enigmatic Middle Eastern guide, and begins deciphering an unusual inscription on the wall of a recently unearthed temple. But then a mysterious, well-financed foundation makes Diana an offer she cannot refuse.
Diana's colleagues shake their heads at her Amazon fixation. Her obsession with the Amazons started in childhood when her eccentric grandmother claimed to be one herself-before vanishing without a trace. Oxford lecturer Diana Morgan is an expert on Greek mythology.
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