and something else that she can't quite put a finger on.
Her formerly attentive industrialist husband, Gilbert, has become remote, pre-occupied with business. 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.Īpril 1915 Southern belle Caroline Telfair Hochstetter's marriage is in crisis.
What she discovers there could change history. 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. May 2013 Her finances are in dire straits and bestselling author Sarah Blake is struggling to find a big idea for her next book. (Sept.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. The story toggles effortlessly between timelines, building romance and intrigue to a hellish climax at the Lusitania’s sinking-and to the completion of a book Sarah never intended to write 100 years later. The other richly drawn narrations are provided from aboard the Lusitania itself by Southern beauty Caroline, who is sailing with her secretive industrialist husband, Gilbert, and by steerage passenger Tess, pressed into a high-risk forgery by her con artist sister, Ginny. Convinced the items will lead to a bestseller, Sarah goes to London to enlist the help of John Lanford, the great-grandson of Lusitania survivor and spy novelist Robert, to reconstruct a murky conspiracy aboard the ship they end up testing the boundaries of love and trust.
“What a story they told,” writes struggling author Sarah, whose great-grandfather was a steward on the doomed passenger ship, while surveying the intriguing belongings returned after the ocean liner was torpedoed by a German U-boat. The story is seamlessly narrated in alternating chapters by two American women aboard the British luxury liner Lusitania on its fateful final cruise in 1915 and by a 21st-century writer trying to unearth a family secret. Williams, Willig, and White ( The Forgotten Room) form a spectacularly winning team for this action- and romance-packed historical novel.
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