The Women Friends - Emma Rose Millar

**FINALIST: The Chanticleer Goethe Awards for Late Historical Fiction** Who is the young woman with the haunting gaze in Gustav Klimt's 1917 masterpiece, The Women Friends? Selina Brunner is running from the demons of her past, cut off from her family in a sleepy Tyrolean village, and lost in the soulless city of Vienna, where everything - even one's very existence - is a lie. When, amidst growing fear of sinister developments in Vienna, an exotic stranger comes to town, Selina finds old passions reignited and her whole world turned upside down. The Women Friends: Selina is the first in a series of fictional tales about the women who inspired this great artist.