Ally’s book is a 19 th-century biography of Anna Landvik, who brought the famed Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg’s Solveig to life in his masterpiece opera, Peer Gynt. Here is where Lucinda Riley’s multifaceted The Storm Sister takes flight. Bidding Ally farewell, he suggests a book on his shelves if she wishes to explore the family she was born into. She meets her five sisters at their father’s Lake Geneva estate, where she is given a letter by her father, left for her in case of his death. Then, Ally gets urgent messages from her family – Pa Salt is dead. It doesn’t take long for Ally to fall in love with the handsome Briton, and Theo is equally smitten. Her captain is the sailing world’s “King of the Seas,” aka Theo Falys-Kings Ally learned seamanship from her adoptive father, Pa Salt, whose high-tech Titan is the envy of such yachtsmen as Theo. Ally D’Aplièse is a multifaceted young woman – musician and skilled sailor – who signs on as crewmember for the difficult Cyclades Regatta.
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