In 1961, Belinda Brown, a young Los Angeles-based, rare-book expert wins a dream assignment to evaluate a private library in Ecuador.
Fresh from the disastrous ending of her three-year engagement, she becomes the romantic focus of feuding twin brothers. Both men could pose for Greek-God statuary. Ricardo is dark, with a sunny disposition filled with Latin machismo. Karlos is blond, enigmatic, and profoundly deaf.
In the silence of the vast library, Belinda finds evidence in their mother’s hidden diary, revealing a husband who was a Nazi sympathizer, and maternal links to the Conversos – Jews who converted to Christianity to escape the Spanish Inquisition.
But it is the biological secret concealed in the journal that changes the future for everyone.
