Worlds of Euphrasia

The novel reveals the true and turbulent story of the impossible love between abolitionist Joaquim Nabuco and Eufrásia Teixeira Leite, a woman far ahead of her time. Atypically for the standards of the time, Eufrásia was raised by her father to be the heir and manager of his immense fortune. Upon his death, she takes over his business and surprises everyone with her remarkable talent for managing and multiplying her assets, while also ensuring her economic emancipation in the midst of Imperial Brazil. But the promise she would never marry—made to her father on his deathbed and always remembered by her sister, with whom she had a lifelong love-hate relationship—comes at a high price, dooming her romance with the rebellious Joaquim Nabuco.