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Eden vanBuren lies chained to an iron bedstead in a homemadecell. Her captor is a handsome tormented youngsculptor who lives alone in the Arizona desert. Heis honest, compassionate, and uninterested inmoney. Why then has he kidnapped Eden and demandedten million dollars in ransom? And why does he seemintnet on destroying Eden's mother? The answerlies in half-century of dseire, brutality, andbetrayal--a dark skein of tangled lives and shamefulsecrets that spans three generations and threecontinents, from Franco's Spain to the cruel brulaityof Veitnam, from the haut monde of Bevery Hills toexotic Costa Brava to the basement of an isolatedhouse where Eden's captor seeks his ransomrevenge. For he is more than a kidnapper; he is anavenging angel, and he represents the final piece in apuzzle of lies and deception that began with. ..the original sin. A gripping novel of love,revenge, and redemption, The Original Sinis a work of stunning intensity and rivetingsuspense--a novel that establishes Marius Gabriel asone of the most exciting new voices in contemporaryfiction.
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