THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ""An engrossing and sumptuous tale, this novel is a fantastic spring read."" — Good Morning America From the New York Times bestselling team of Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White—a novel of money and secrets set among the famous summer mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, spanning over a century from the Gilded Age to the present day. “Three stories elegantly intertwine in this clever and stylish tale of murder and family lies…This crackerjack novel offers three mysteries for the price of one.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) 2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer of Mansion Makeover, a popular reality show about restoring America’s most lavish historic houses. Andie has high hopes for her latest project: the once glorious but gently crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport, Rhode Island, summer resort of America’s gilded class—famous for the lavish “summer cottages” of Vanderbilts and Belmonts. But Andie runs into trouble: the reclusive heiress who still lives in the mansion, Lucia “Lucky” Sprague, will only allow the show to go forward on two conditions: One, nobody speaks to her. Two, nobody touches the mansion’s ruined boathouse. 1899: Ellen Daniels has been hired to give singing lessons to Miss Maybelle Sprague, a naive young Colorado mining heiress whose stepbrother John has poured their new money into buying a place among Newport’s elite. John is determined to see Maybelle married off to a fortune-hunting Italian prince, and Ellen is supposed to polish up the girl for her launch into society. But the deceptively demure Ellen has her own checkered past, and she’s hiding in plain sight at Sprague Hall. 1958: Lucia “Lucky” Sprague has always felt like an outsider at Sprague Hall. When she and her grandmother—the American-born Princess di Conti—fled Mussolini’s Italy, it seemed natural to go back to the imposing Newport house Nana owned but hadn’t seen since her marriage in 1899. Over the years, Lucky's lost her Italian accent and found a place for herself among the yachting set by marrying Stuyvesant Sprague, the alcoholic scion of her Sprague stepfamily. But one fateful night in the mansion’s old boathouse will uncover a devastating truth...and change everything she thought she knew about her past. As the cameras roll on Mansion Makeover, the house begins to yield up the dark secrets the Spragues thought would stay hidden forever….

The Lost Summers of Newport

""A pure delight from start to finish! Williams, White and Willig are in top form in this clever, engrossing whodunnit with a heart.” —Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of The New Couple in 5B Three beloved New York Times bestselling novelists, one marvelously entertaining locked-room whodunit! When a famous writer is found dead in the book-lined study of a remote Scottish castle, three very different American novelists become prime suspects! Agatha Christie meets Murder, She Wrote in this witty locked room mystery and literary satire by New York Times bestselling team of novelists: Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White. There’s been a sensational murder at historic Castle Kinloch, a gothic fantasy of grey granite on a remote island in the Highlands of Scotland. Literary superstar Brett Saffron Presley has been found dead—under bizarre circumstances—in the castle tower’s book-lined study. Years ago, Presley purchased the castle as a showpiece for his brand and to lure paying guests with a taste for writerly glamour. Now it seems, the castle has done him in…or, possibly, one of the castle’s guests has. Detective Chief Inspector Euan McIntosh, a local with no love for literary Americans, finds himself with the unenviable task of extracting statements from three American lady novelists. The prime suspects are Kat de Noir, a slinky erotica writer; Cassie Pringle, a Southern mom of six juggling multiple cozy mystery series; and Emma Endicott, a New England blue blood and author of critically acclaimed historical fiction. The women claim to be best friends writing a book together, but the authors’ stories about how they know Brett Saffron Presley don’t quite line up, and the detective is getting increasingly suspicious. Why did the authors really come to Castle Kinloch? And what really happened the night of the great Kinloch ceilidh, when Brett Saffron Presley skipped the folk dancing for a rendezvous with death? A crafty locked-room mystery, a pointed satire about the literary world, and a tale of unexpected friendship and romance—this novel has it all, as only three bestselling authors can tell it!

The Author's Guide to Murder

The New York Times bestselling authors of The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room return with a glorious historical adventure that moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years of the 1960s, in which three women with bruised hearts find refuge at Paris’ legendary Ritz hotel. The heiress . . . The Resistance fighter . . . The widow . . . Three women whose fates are joined by one splendid hotel France, 1914. As war breaks out, Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles. When the Germans move into their family’s ancestral estate, using it as their headquarters, Aurelie discovers she knows the German Major’s aide de camp, Maximilian Von Sternburg. She and the dashing young officer first met during Aurelie’s debutante days in Paris. Despite their conflicting loyalties, Aurelie and Max’s friendship soon deepens into love, but betrayal will shatter them both, driving Aurelie back to Paris and the Ritz— the home of her estranged American heiress mother, with unexpected consequences. France, 1942. Raised by her indomitable, free-spirited American grandmother in the glamorous Hotel Ritz, Marguerite “Daisy” Villon remains in Paris with her daughter and husband, a Nazi collaborator, after France falls to Hitler. At first reluctant to put herself and her family at risk to assist her grandmother’s Resistance efforts, Daisy agrees to act as a courier for a skilled English forger known only as Legrand, who creates identity papers for Resistance members and Jewish refugees. But as Daisy is drawn ever deeper into Legrand’s underground network, committing increasingly audacious acts of resistance for the sake of the country—and the man—she holds dear, she uncovers a devastating secret . . . one that will force her to commit the ultimate betrayal, and to confront at last the shocking circumstances of her own family history. France, 1964. For Barbara “Babs” Langford, her husband, Kit, was the love of her life. Yet their marriage was haunted by a mysterious woman known only as La Fleur. On Kit’s death, American lawyer Andrew “Drew” Bowdoin appears at her door. Hired to find a Resistance fighter turned traitor known as “La Fleur,” the investigation has led to Kit Langford. Curious to know more about the enigmatic La Fleur, Babs joins Drew in his search, a journey of discovery that that takes them to Paris and the Ritz—and to unexpected places of the heart. . . .

All the Ways We Said Goodbye

From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century—two deep in the past, one in the present—to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania. May 2013 Her finances are in dire straits and bestselling author Sarah Blake is struggling to find a big idea for her next book. Desperate, she breaks the one promise she made to her Alzheimer’s-stricken mother and opens an old chest that belonged to her great-grandfather, who died when the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915. What she discovers there could change history. Sarah embarks on an ambitious journey to England to enlist the help of John Langford, a recently disgraced Member of Parliament whose family archives might contain the only key to the long-ago catastrophe. . . . April 1915 Southern belle Caroline Telfair Hochstetter’s marriage is in crisis. Her formerly attentive industrialist husband, Gilbert, has become remote, pre-occupied with business . . . and something else that she can’t quite put a finger on. She’s hoping a trip to London in Lusitania’s lavish first-class accommodations will help them reconnect—but she can’t ignore the spark she feels for her old friend, Robert Langford, who turns out to be on the same voyage. Feeling restless and longing for a different existence, Caroline is determined to stop being a bystander, and take charge of her own life. . . . Tessa Fairweather is traveling second-class on the Lusitania, returning home to Devon. Or at least, that’s her story. Tessa has never left the United States and her English accent is a hasty fake. She’s really Tennessee Schaff, the daughter of a roving con man, and she can steal and forge just about anything. But she’s had enough. Her partner has promised that if they can pull off this one last heist aboard the Lusitania, they’ll finally leave the game behind. Tess desperately wants to believe that, but Tess has the uneasy feeling there’s something about this job that isn’t as it seems. . . . As the Lusitania steams toward its fate, three women work against time to unravel a plot that will change the course of their own lives . . . and history itself.

The Glass Ocean

Maj, 2013: Bestsellerforfatteren Sarah Blake er i økonomiske vanskeligheder og kæmper med inspirationen til sin næste bog. I ren desperation bryder hun det løfte, hun ellers har givet sin Alzheimersramte mor, og åbner en gammel trækiste, der engang tilhørte hendes oldefar, som døde, da RMS Lusitania blev sænket af en tysk ubåd i 1915. Kisten viser sig at gemme på information, der potentielt kan ændre historien – og Sarah må rejse til England for at søge hjælp hos John Langford, et nyligt vanæret medlem af det britiske parlament, hvis familiearkiver muligvis rummer nøglen til den historiske katastrofe. April, 1915: Sydstatsskønheden Caroline Telfair Hochstetters ægteskab er i krise. Hendes tidligere så hengivne ægtemand Gilbert er blevet fjern, optaget af sine industrivirksomheder … og noget andet og mere, som hun ikke kan sætte fingeren på. Hun håber, at en rejse til London på Lusitanias overdådige 1. klasse vil hjælpe dem til at finde hinanden igen – men hun kan ikke ignorere de følelser, der flakker i hendes indre for vennen Robert Langford, som også er ombord. Rastløs og fyldt op af længsel efter en anden tilværelse sætter Caroline sig for at tage styringen i sit eget liv. Tessa Fairweather er ombord på Lusitanias 2. klasse og på vej hjem til Devon. Eller, det er i hvert fald hendes dækhistorie. Tessa har aldrig været uden for USA, og hendes britiske er en falsk accent, hun har lært sig i stor hast. I virkeligheden hedder hun Tennessee Schaff, er datter af en omrejsende svindler og i stand til at stjæle og forfalske stort set hvad som helst. Men hun har fået nok af intriger og konspirationer. Hendes partner har lovet, at hvis de succesfuldt kan gennemføre et sidste kup ombord på Lusitania, kan de endegyldigt lægge fupnumrene bag sig. Tess ønsker desperat at tro på, at det er sandt, men hun har en ubehagelig fornemmelse af, at der er noget ved dette komplot, der ikke er, hvad det giver sig ud for ... Mens Lusitania styrer mod sin skæbne, kæmper tre kvinder mod uret for at optrevle en plan, der vil ændre kursen på deres egne liv … og på selve historien.

Glashavet

Frankrig, 1914. Da den tyske besættelsesmagt rykker ind på Aurelie de Courcelles familiegods for at bruge det som hovedkvarter, opdager hun, at hun kender den tyske kommandants højre hånd, Maximilan von Sternburg, fra sine debutantdage i Paris. Til trods for deres modstridende loyaliteter udvikler Aurelie og Max’ venskab sig snart til kærlighed. Men et utilgiveligt forræderi skiller dem ad, og Aurelie vender hjem til Paris, Hotel Ritz og sin fremmedgjorte mor. Frankrig, 1942. Marguerite ”Daisy” Villon er vokset op hos sin frisindede amerikanske bedstemor på det glamourøse Hotel Ritz i Paris , og da tyske tropper besætter Frankrig, bliver hun i hovdstaden med sin datter og sin mand, som samarbejder med nazisterne. Til at begynde med tøver Daisy med at hjælpe sin bedstemor i modstandskampen og dermed udsætte sig selv og sin familie for fare. Men hun indvilliger alligevel i at agere kurer for den enigmatiske Legrand, som forfalsker identitetspapirer til modstandsfolk og jødiske flygtninge. Efterhånden som Daisy suges længere ind i Legrands underjordiske netværk, kommer hun stadigt tættere på en ødelæggende hemmelighed fra hendes egen slægts dunkle fortid. Frankrig, 1964. For Barbara Langford var ægtemanden Kit hendes livs kærlighed, men deres ægteskab var hjemsøgt af en mystisk kvinde kendt som La Fleur. Efter Kits død dukker den amerikanske advokat Andrew ”Drew” Bowdoin op på hendes dørtrin, hyret til at opspore en forræderisk modstandskæmper kendt under navnet ”La Fleur”. Nysgerrig efter at vide mere om den gådefulde La Fleur slutter Barbara sig til Drew, og deres søgen leder dem til Paris og Hotel Ritz – og til uventede afkroge af deres hjerter. Hver gang vi tog afsked er en gribende roman, der strækker sig fra de mørke dage i skyggerne af to verdenskrige til de turbulente 1960’ere i selskab med tre kvinder fra hver sin generation, der alle søger tilflugt for deres sårede hjerter på Paris’ legendariske Hotel Ritz.

Hver gang vi tog afsked

New York, 1945: Da den alvorligt sårede kaptajn Cooper Ravenal bliver bragt til et privathospital på Manhattans Upper East Side, bliver den unge dr. Kate Schuyler involveret i et kompliceret mysterium, der viser sig at forbinde tre generationer af kvinder i hendes familie til ét enkelt ekstraordinært værelse i et historisk palæ i New York. Hvem er kvinden på det miniatureportræt, kaptajn Ravenal altid har med sig, og som til forveksling ligner Kate? Og hvorfor bærer hun det rubinvedhæng, Kate har arvet efter sin mor? I sit forsøg på at finde svar, støder Kate på historien om Olive Van Alens fald fra et liv i luksus til fattigdom i slutningen af det 19. århundrede, hvor hun hyres som tjenestepige i selve det hus, hendes far var med til at tegne. Men gåden lader også til at være forbundet med Lucy Young, der i de brølende 20’ere drager fra Brooklyn til Manhattan for at opstøve den far, hun aldrig har mødt. Og i sidste ende peger alle tråde i retning af et ganske særligt værelse, som har været glemt af generationer. Spørgsmålet er, om Kate og Cooper er i stand til at håndtere de hemmeligheder, Det Glemte Værelse rummer? Det glemte værelse er en farverig roman om tre generationer af kvinder og deres liv med kærlighed, chancer og tab på tværs af et halvt århundrede.

Det glemte værelse

NEVERTHELESS WE PERSISTED is a special audio-first anthology of poems, essays, and stories that explores themes of loss, love, and finding your own power. It's an astonishing collection filled with heart, tears, laughter, and ultimately hope. This collection was created from writers across the United States and also in Australia, England, India, and New Zealand. Each piece is performed by a talented narrator. Music by Jennie Knaggs and Nick Shillace of Lac La Belle. Writers include: Amy Oestreicher, Cat Gould, Charlotte McKinnon, Christa Lewis, Christina St Clair, Danielle Dayney, Deepti Gupta, Echo Aspnes, Gina Dawe Weaver, Gracie Greenbaum, Jack Arkel, Jacqueline Pick, Janina Edward, Jerrianne Hayslett, Karen Randall, Karen White, Kass Hillard,Laura Schmidt, Lauren Ezzo, Lily Schmidt, Mark Blickley, Martha McSweeney Brower, Nancy Wagner, Rodney Vaccaro, Sandy Logan, Sahana Kumar, Sue Pitkin, Tanya Eby, Tamara Hansen, Tammy Scott, Tanya Eby, Tricia Lowther and Viiji Chary. Narrators include: Amy Landon, Amy McFadden, Bailey Carr, Cat Gould, Christa Lewis, Deepti Gupta, Emily Beresford, Emily Sutton-Smith, Erin Bennett, Erin Mallon, Gina Dawe Weaver, Gracie Greenbaum, Julie McKay, Lauren Ezzo, Lauri Jo Daniels, James Patrick Cronin, Janina Edwards, Karen White, Kate Rudd, Nancy Wagner, Nicol Zanzarella, Mark Kamish, Paul Heitsch, Sarah Mollo-Christensen, and Sue Pitkin. Cover by 10 Digit Press Engineered by Featured Audio Produced by Blunder Woman Productions

Nevertheless We Persisted

Beloved bestselling author Karen White returns with a captivating Southern drama about sisterhood, secrets and one woman’s reckoning with the past As a child, Phoebe Manigault developed the gift of premonition after she was struck by lightning in the creek near her Charleston home. Plagued throughout her life by mysterious dreams, and always living in the shadow of her beautiful sister, Addie, Phoebe eventually moves to the West Coast, as far from her family as possible. Now, years later, she is summoned back to South Carolina, to help Addie care for their ailing mother. As Phoebe’s return lures her back into deep-rooted tensions and conflicts, she is drawn to Celeste, whose granddaughter went missing years ago. Their connection brings comfort to Phoebe, while Celeste’s adult grandson Liam resurrects complicated emotions tied to Phoebe’s past. But the longer Phoebe spends in her childhood home, the more her recurring nightmares intensify—bringing her closer to the shocking truth that will irrevocably change everything. Unfolding against the lush backdrop of the South Carolina Lowcountry, That Last Carolina Summer is an unforgettable story about the unbreakable bonds of family and the gift of second chances.

That Last Carolina Summer

Quando Julie tinha 12 anos, sua irmã mais nova desapareceu e nunca mais foi encontrada. Uma perda que corroeu os laços familiares e deixou sua mãe obcecada pela busca da irmã. Já adulta e com um prestigiado emprego, Julie conhece Monica, que a faz lembrar muito de sua irmã desaparecida há 17 anos. Elas se tornam melhores amigas, uma amizade que começa como um processo de cura para Julie. No entanto, uma fatalidade abate a amizade e Julie se vê responsável pelo filho de Monica. Ela decide levar o menino para Biloxi, Mississippi, para encontrar a família que ele não conhecera. A partir dessa viagem, Julie descobrirá segredos que estão ligados a sua família e seu passado...

Após a tempestade

Cassie Madison fugiu de Walton, Geórgia, para Nova York quando soube que sua irmã, Harriet, e seu amor, Joe, a tinham traído e iam se casar. Ao chegar em Manhattan, sua ideia era se reinventar, mergulhar de cabeça na carreira e até mesmo perder o sotaque provinciano. Tudo para apagar seu passado marcado pela traição e por uma família que não lhe tratara com o devido cuidado. Mas, numa noite, um único telefonema de sua irmã trouxe de volta tudo o que ela pretendia esquecer. Com o pai muito doente, ela foi obrigada a fazer a viagem de volta e, enquanto arrumava as malas, seus maiores medos eram que o pai morresse sem que ela pudesse estar com ele e… encontrar a família feliz que Harriet e Joe tinham construído. Já em Walton, Cassie percebeu que enfrentaria uma imensa batalha particular, porque, afinal, ela não conseguia deixar de amar seus sobrinhos — e nem deixar de se sentir em casa, naquela cidadezinha de sua infância. Enquanto se dividia entre o rancor e a esperança, velhas e queridas lembranças e uma mágoa insustentável, o destino arrumaria uma forma de aproximá-la do que realmente importa: o verdadeiro amor. "Um livro doce, altamente recomendado(…) deixará os leitores satisfeitos, mas querendo mais!" - Booklist "Extraordinário e cativante(…) uma joia rara(…) primorosamente contado, rico nas descrições e cheio de personagens multifacetados." - The Book Connection

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