Alizee Benoit is an artist living in New York and working for the WPA in 1940, She is trying desperately to obtain visas for her family after Germany invades France and begins to ship all the Jews to concentration camps. Her desperation leads her to become involved in a plot to kill the undersecretary of state, who is denying visas to most refugees from Europe. After the plot fails, Alizee manages to get on a ship to France, and simply vanishes.
Danielle Abrams is a young woman living in New York and working for an art auction house in 2015. She is working with a newly obtained collection of paintings when she discovers two smaller paintings attached to the backs. They look remarkably like the only two surviving paintings of her great-aunt, Alizee Benoit. What happened to Alizee has been a family mystery since the war, and Dani has always been fascinated by it.
Dani sets out to try to solve the mystery; the story alternates from Alizee's story to Dani's search. Much of the story revolves around art and art movements and artists; I found that less interesting than Alizee's story.
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Twins Kelly and Kathy Frawley are kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand an eight million dollar ransom. Their father's employer, an international investment firm, pays the ransom, but only one twin is returned to the parents. The other was killed by the kidnappers.
