From the first time Laura and Marco lock eyes in a Paris cafe, fires are lit. Powerful Brazilian Coffee Grower Marco de Mendonça III, loves Laura Harrington but must marry the bride chosen by his father. He sires three children whose sense of family is vastly different from his. Eldest son Paulo disavows coffee growing to become a Formula One Race Car Driver. Younger son Tonio is banished to Europe to end his affair with the Stable Manager's daughter. Daughter Sofia offers promiscuity so embarrassing that Marco sends her to America where she leads a Lesbian lifestyle. Marco's business partner, Sugar Baron Alfredo de Carmoça, loses three sons in a tragic accident then sires twins which end the de Carmoça lineage. Rodolfo struggles from boyhood to deny his homosexual feelings and when Alfredo ships him off to Paris, twin sister Renata follows. Although betrothed to Paulo Renata falls in love with Archaeologist Kameron van Horton. Laura Harrington returns from Paris brokenhearted over Marco and finds she is pregnant. Over thirty years later Marco and Laura meet again in a soul searing confrontation over custody of his dead son Paulo's child, and the fuse is set for explosions that could rock the status quo of all three families when he learns he has a son conceived in Paris and never revealed to him...Laura's son KAMERON VAN HORTON. Buy It Now!

"FRAGMENTS is a multi-generational family saga revealing the complex lives of three powerful families. Sandy Livingston's trademark is the deft interweaving of the relationships she creates between her characters. Employing elements of mild suspense, she frequently introduces new chains of events which appear unconnected but are soon seamlessly woven into a pattern linking together the lives of three flawed families in all their touching glory. From Brazil to Paris to New York to San Francisco, FRAGMENTS is a richly layered and compelling saga of passion and intrigue. Readers are masterfully steered through the turbulent emotional gamut of the de Mendonça clan, their loves, their lust, their disappointments, and their pain."

Sandy Livingston establishes herself in the front ranks of popular fiction writers with this intriguing and well crafted novel. Sandy, a Gypsy at heart, has lived in various places around the world and was a Publicist in the Motion Picture Industry in Hollywood for many years before moving to Brazil to teach English to Executives. She now lives in Westchester County, New York, but will reside in Santa Barbara, Ca. to complete her third novel and write the sequel to FRAGMENTS.

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