num_pages: 572
description: Nothing in Brazil is as it first seems, convent-bred Margaret Clairborne is warned when she arrives in Rio, a city named for a non-existent river. One of many who fled the defeated South to Brazil after the Civil War, Margaret is a brilliant pianist, but an innocent about a distant land that has its own rules about life and love. Here Margaret meets and marries her best friends brother, the most powerful man in Rio. Though he adores her, Erik Larson harbors his dark secrets from Margaret leaving her to find a unique identity of her own.
language: English
title: River of Dreams
titlecomplete: River of Dreams
genres: Historical, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 83
places: Rio de Janeiro
publisher: iUniverse