Laura R. (starwolf) reviewed on 5/16/2006 + 120 more book reviews

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Ross Marteau makes a handsome living sculpting female nudes from glamorous live models. After a bad breakup in Paris, he returns home to San Rafael a chic, artsy enclave in the Texas hill country for his next commission. Upon his arrival, exotically beautiful newcomer Celeste Lacan seeks him out and persuades him to sculpt her sister, Leda. Leda is striking in a photograph Celeste shows Ross, but Leda, Celeste hints, is not an ordinary beauty she will be a unique artistic challenge. As Ross soon discovers, Leda is a hunchback, stunning from some angles and startling from others. As Ross begins sketching her daily, and he and Cleste become romantically involved, he glimpses details of the sordid arrangement that binds the sisters to each other and to Cleste's abusive husband. There is an eerie tension among Ross, Celeste ,and Leda, which heightens when a murder disturbs the calm of San Rafael.

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