Betty S. reviewed on 8/22/2006 + 14 more book reviews

In 1630 Amsterdam, tulipomania has seized the populace. Everywhere men are seduced by the fantastic exotic flower. But for the wealthy merchant, Cornelis Sandvoort, it is his young and beautiful wife, Sophia, who stirs his soul. She is the prize he desires, the woman he hopes will bring him the joy that not even his considerable fortune can buy. Cornelis yearns for an heir, but so far he and Sophia have failed to produce one. In a bid for immortality, he commissions a portrait of them both by the talented young painter Jan van Loos. But as Van Loos begins to capture Sophia's likeness on canvas, a slow passion begins to burn between the beautiful young wife and the talented artist. As the portrait unfolds, so a slow dance is begun among the household's inhabitants. Ambitions, desires, and dreams breed a grand deception and as the lies multiply, events move toward a thrilling and tragic climax.

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