Present day, San Francisco.
During her free time, professional photographer Cady Drake shoots local carousels, a hobby inspired by a gift that transformed her childhood- a wooden rabbit supposedly created by master French carver Gustave Bayol a century ago. And when she's offered a freelance assignment for a book on the antique merry-go-rounds of Paris, Cady can't refuse the opportunity to visit the famous carousels for the first time . . .
1900s, France.
In a small town outside of Avignon, a husband and young wife struggle to keep up their ancestral chateau-and start the family they so desperately desire. For the children they hope to have, the Clements hire the famous Bayol to build a carousel, but as the carver and his apprentice work on the beautiful and whimsical creation, fate will entwine them all in unseen ways-for generations to come . . .
Present day, Provence.
As Cady's research leads her to the dilapidated Chateau Clement and its fabled carousel that was lost to the ravages of World War II, she will uncover a shocking truth in a set of one-hundred-year-old photographs that could guide her in reuniting a family torn apart by petty jealousies over several generations.
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