New Releases by Beatriz Williams

"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 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!

Two women—separated by decades and continents, and united by an exotic family heirloom—reclaim secrets and lost loves in this sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives. “My favorite kind of page-turner—unputdownable!”—Martha Hall Kelly, author of The Golden Doves New England, 2022. Three years ago, single mother Mallory Dunne received the telephone call every parent dreads—her ten-year-old son, Sam, had been airlifted from summer camp with acute poisoning from a toxic death cap mushroom, leaving him fighting for his life. Now, searching for the donor kidney that will give her son a chance for a normal life, Mallory’s forced to confront two harrowing secrets from her past: her mother’s adoption from an infamous Irish orphanage in 1952, and her own all-consuming summer romance fourteen years earlier with her childhood best friend, Monk Adams— one of the world’s most beloved singer-songwriters—a fairy tale cut short by a devastating betrayal. Cairo, 1951. After suffering tragedy beyond comprehension in the war, Hungarian refugee Hannah Ainsworth has forged a respectable new life for herself—marriage to a wealthy British diplomat with a coveted posting in glamorous Cairo. But a fateful encounter with the enigmatic manager of a hotel bristling with spies leads to a passionate affair that will reawaken Hannah’s longing for everything she once lost. As revolution simmers in the Egyptian streets, a pregnant Hannah finds herself snared in a game of intrigue between two men . . . and an act of sacrifice that will echo down the generations. Timeless and bittersweet, Husbands & Lovers takes readers on an unforgettable journey of heartbreak and redemption, from the revolutionary fires of midcentury Egypt to the moneyed beaches of contemporary New England. Acclaimed author Beatriz Williams has written a poignant and beautifully voiced novel of deeply human characters entangled by morally complex issues—of privilege, class, and the female experience—inside worlds brought shimmeringly to life.

New York Times Bestseller "Nagy ívű, pazar regény, fantasztikus olvasmány." - Good Morning America 2019: Egy népszerű valóságshow keretei között újítanak fel mutatós régi házakat, a legfrissebb kiszemelt a Rhode Island-i Newportban található Sprague Hall - de a műsor producere aknára fut: jelenleg is a patinás Sprague család leszármazottja, Lucia "Lucky" Sprague lakik a villában, aki csak azzal a feltétellel engedélyezi a forgatást, hogy a romos állapotban levő csónakházhoz nem szabad hozzányúlni. 1899: Énektanárt vesznek fel a Sprague-vagyon naiv, ifjú örökösnője mellé, akit a család egy hozományvadász olasz herceghez szeretne feleségül adni, ezért a fiatal nőnek el kell sajátítania a tökéletes illemet. Az énektanárnak azonban a szolid látszat ellenére megvan a maga pikáns múltja: tulajdonképp búvóhelynek választotta a Sprague Hallt. 1958: Lucia "Lucky" Sprague Mussolini Olaszországából menekült Newportba. Mindig is úgy érezte, nem tartozik a Sprague Hallba, noha a Rhode Island-i közeg apránként befogadta: a nagy múltú dinasztia utolsó sarja lett a férje. De egy sorsszerű éjjelen feltárul a villához tartozó régi csónakház titka, és Luckynak emiatt mindent át kell értékelnie. A valóságshow kamerái forognak, és a ház lerántja a leplet a titkokról, amelyeket a Sprague család örökre el akart temetni. A szerzőktől a Next21 Kiadónál megjelent: Annyiféleképp búcsúztunk (2021) Beatriz Williams A nyári feleségek, a Perzselő nyár és több másik - részben történelmi - regény New York Times bestsellerlistás szerzője. Seattle-ben született és nevelkedett, utána a Stanford Egyetemen végzett, majd a Columbia Egyetemen szerzett üzleti mesterfokozatot. Férjével és négy gyermekével a connecticuti óceánparton élnek, ahol az írás és a mosás között oszlik meg az ideje. Lauren Willig több mint húsz történelmi regény New York Times és a USA Today bestsellerlistás szerzője, amelyek közül a Rózsaszín Szegfű-sorozat a RITA-díjat is elnyerte. Miután a Yale Egyetemen diplomázott le, a Harvardon kapta meg a mesterfokozatát történelemből, majd a Harvard jogi karán jogászi végzettséget is szerzett. New Yorkban él a férjével, kisgyermekeivel és hatalmas kávétartalékaival. Karen White a New York Times és a USA Today bestsellerlistás szerzője. A Next21 Kiadónál megjelent könyve: Antikvitás a Royal Streeten (2023) Az általa "grit lit"-nek nevezett stílusban ír déli női regényeket, de két krimisorozat is fűződik a nevéhez, amelyek Charlestonban és New Orleansban, az amerikai dél ikonikus városaiban játszódnak. A londoni American Schoolban végzett, majd a Tulane Egyetemen szerzett természettudományi fokozatot. Amikor éppen nem ír, olvasással, zongorázással és a főzés kategorikus elkerülésével tölti az idejét. Két felnőtt gyermeke van, a georgiai Atlanta mellett él férjével és egy elkényeztetett Havanese kiskutyával. beatrizwilliams.com laurenwillig.com karen-white.com

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….

Szerelem a párizsi Ritz szállóban "Szerelem és árulás, veszteség és révbe érés - éppoly időtlen és nagyszabású történet, mint a legendás Ritz szálló maga." – Pam Jenoff, az Elvesztek Párizsban című New York Times bestseller szerzője Az örökösnő A Szabad Francia Erők harcosa Az özvegy ... Három nő, akiknek egy pompás szállodában forr egybe a sorsa Franciaország, 1914. A németek elfoglalják és főhadiszállásnak használják Sigismund de Courcelles gróf ősi családi birtokát. A gróf lánya, Aurelie már ismeri a német őrnagy szárnysegédjét, Maximilian Von Sternburgot: Párizsban, elsőbálozóként találkozott a feltűnően jóképű fiatal tiszttel. A háborúban ugyan ellentétes oldalakon állnak, mégis fellobban köztük a szerelem. Franciaország, 1942. Marguerite „Daisy” Villont rettenthetetlen, szabad szellemű amerikai nagymamája nevelte, a fényűző Ritz szállóban laktak. Daisy Párizs eleste után is a városban marad lányával és férjével, aki náci kollaboráns. Nagymamája a Szabad Francia Erőket, az ellenállást segíti, és Daisy eleinte nem szívesen kockáztatná családja biztonságát, de végül belemegy, hogy futárként összeköttetésbe lépjen egy ügyes angol hamisítóval, akit Legrand néven ismernek. Daisy egyre mélyebben bevonódik Legrand titkos hálózatának munkájába. Franciaország, 1964. Barbara „Babs” Langfordnak meghalt a férje, Kit, aki élete nagy szerelme volt. A gyászoló özvegyhez becsönget egy amerikai ügyvéd. Andrew „Drew” Bowdoint azzal bízták meg, hogy kutassa fel a francia ellenállás egyik harcosát. La Fleur rejtélyes nő volt, állítólag árulóvá vált. Babst kíváncsivá teszi a nyomozás, és a szálak Párizsba, a Ritz szállóba vezetnek... Ahol olyan szívügyek tárulnak fel, amelyek mindenkinek meglepetést okoznak. Beatriz Williams tizenhárom regény szerzője, köztük a Nyári feleségek és a Perzselő nyár című bestsellereké. Seattle-ben született, most Connecticutban él, az óceánparton, férjével és négy gyerekével, ahol idejét az írás és a mosás meg a hajtogatás tölti ki. Lauren Willig New York Times és USA Today bestsellerszerző. Húsz regénye jelent meg, köztük a RITA-díjas Pink Carnation-sorozat könyvei. New Yorkban él férjével és két kisgyerekével, és ipari mennyiségű kávét iszik. Karen White New York Times és USA Today bestsellerszerző. Huszonöt regénye jelent meg, köztük a Hazatérés és a Köztes idő. Az USA déli államaiban játszódó női regényeket ír, és belekezdett egy Dél-Karolinában játszódó detektívregény-szériába is. Amikor nem ír, akkor olvas vagy énekel. Főzni nem szeret. A gyerekei már felnőttek. Jelenleg Atlantától nem messze laknak férjével és két elkényeztetett havanese kutyájukkal. „Mindhárom írónő lebilincselő karaktereket formál meg összetett kapcsolatokba ágyazva, és olyan hangnemet ütnek meg, amely illik az adott történetek korszakához... A cselekmény középpontjában álló csavar már önmagában véve is elismerést érdemel. Remek választás mindazok számára, akik egy olyan elmés történelmi regényre vágynak, amely bővelkedik a drámában, akcióban és meglepetésekben, végigkísérve annak minden fejezetét.” - Library Journal „A szerzők legújabb együttműködésének eredménye egy olyan történet, amely csupa szív és bonyodalom, és megragadja a női kitartást, illetve azt, ahogyan a történelem valamennyiünket összefűz.” - Booklist „A legtöbb embernek ritkán adatik meg, hogy egy igazi grandhotelben szálljon meg. Arra az időre belevetjük magunkat a luxusba, kifogástalan ellátásban van részünk, és megfeledkezünk a külvilágról egészen a kijelentkezésig. Nem különbözik attól az élménytől, amelyből az Annyiféleképp búcsúztunk történetének olvasása közben részesül az olvasó.” - Atlanta Journal-Constitution „Elsöprő erejű történelmi regény olyan nők lelki erejéről, akik lehetetlen élethelyzetekben találják magukat.” - Popsugar „Elegánsan megírt, sokrétű regény, amely az elbeszélés-központú narratíván keresztül villantja meg a három társszerző lenyűgöző irodalmi készségeit. Az Annyiféleképp búcsúztunk egy természetéből adódóan magával ragadó, többgenerációs olvasmány elejétől a végéig.” - Midwest Book Review „A történelmi regény három nagyágyúja egyesítette erőit, és megalkotott egy lenyűgöző kalandot, amely az I. világháború kitörésétől egészen az 1960-as évekig húzódik, miközben három nő történetét meséli el a híres Ritz Hotelben.” - Book Riot „Ez az alapos kutatásokon alapuló és összeszedetten megírt történelmi regény jól tükrözi a nőalakokban rejlő erőt, amint viharos időkben küzdenek a túlélésért.” - Orange Country Register „A történelmi regényírók triumvirátusa újból összeállt, hogy három nagyon különböző nő történetét meséljék el, akiknek élete összefonódik az évtizedek során a legendás párizsi Ritz Hotelben.” - Palm Beach Post

Gin Kelly, the wicked redhead, is back! Readers will delight in next installment of the Wicked City series by New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams. June 1925. Audacious Appalachian flapper Geneva “Gin” Kelly prepares to trade her high-flying ways for respectable marriage to Oliver Anson Marshall, a steadfast Prohibition agent who happens to hail from one of New York’s most distinguished families. But just as wedding bells chime, the head of the notorious East Coast rum-running racket—and Anson’s mortal enemy—turns up murdered at a society funeral, and their short-lived honeymoon bliss goes up in a spectacular blaze that sends Anson back undercover...and into the jaws of a trap from which not even Gin can rescue him. As violence explodes around her, Gin must summon all her considerable moxie to trace the tentacles of this sinister organization back to their shocking source, and face down a legendary American family at a rigged game it has no intention of losing. June 1998. When Ella Dommerich’s ninetysomething society queen aunt Julie ropes her into digging up dirt on Senator (and Presidential candidate) Franklin Hardcastle in order to settle old family scores, she couldn’t be less enthusiastic. Pregnant Ella’s recently ditched her unfaithful husband and settled into cozy—if complicated—domesticity with her almost-too-good-to-be-true musician boyfriend, Hector. But then the Hardcastle secrets lead to a web of shady dealings Ella’s uncovered in her job as a financial analyst, and the bodies start to tumble out of the venerable woodwork. With the help of her ex-husband and her mysterious connection to a certain redheaded flapper, Ella digs up more than mere dirt…only to discover herself standing alone between a legendarily ruthless family and the prize it’s sought for generations. What ugly secrets lurk in the opulent enclaves—and bank accounts--of America’s richest families? And can two determined women from two different generations thwart the murderous legacy of the demon liquor?

Sur une île au large de la Nouvelle-Angleterre se joue une passionnante histoire d''amour, de trahison, de quête de pouvoir et de rédemption. Miranda Schuyler n''est qu''une adolescente lorsqu''elle découvre Winthrop Island, durant l''été 1951, à l''occasion du mariage de sa mère et du richissime Hugh Fisher. Plongée dans une vie légère et glamour faite de pool parties et de sorties au Country Club, Miranda est également fascinée par la communauté de pêcheurs portugais installée sur l''île depuis des générations, et notamment par Joseph Vargas, le fils du gardien du phare. Mais les rapprochements entre les deux clans sont mal vus. Et alors que Miranda tisse des liens de plus en plus forts avec Joseph, un drame éclate qui va bouleverser le destin de chacun... Dix-huit ans plus tard, c''est une Miranda accablée qui revient à Winthrop. Mais loin de lui apporter la paix qu''elle espérait, son retour va raviver des plaies laissées béantes. Quels lourds secrets planent sur cette île coupée du monde ? Miranda parviendra-t-elle à briser l''omerta ?

Fesselnd, emotional und wunderschön — ein Roman, so imposant wie ein Sommersturm am Meer! Sommer 1951: Miranda Schuyler ist jung, schön und träumt von der großen Liebe. Als ihre Mutter nach dem Tod ihres Vaters einen reichen Geschäftsmann heiratet, ziehen die beiden Frauen in dessen imposantes Sommerhaus an der Küste Long Islands, und schnell wird Miranda in eine ihr bisher unbekannte Welt gezogen. Eine Welt voller Glamour, Cocktails und Prestige. Dank ihrer Stiefschwester Isobel erlebt Miranda den Sommer ihres Lebens – und lernt Joseph kennen. Dieser kann als Sohn einer Fischerfamilie mit der High Society allerdings so gar nichts anfangen. Die beiden ungleichen Teenager verlieben sich trotz aller Widerstände Hals über Kopf ineinander und ahnen nicht, dass der Sommer und ihre Liebe drohen, in einer Katastrophe zu enden ... Die East-Coast-Reihe von Beatriz Williams bei Blanvalet: 1. Im Herzen des Sturms 2. Das geheime Leben der Violet Grant 3. Träume wie Sand und Meer 4. Die letzten Stunden des Sommers 5. Unser Traum von Freiheit

"A captivating Cold War page-turner." — Real Simple The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives returns with a gripping and profoundly human story of Cold War espionage and family devotion. In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. The world is shocked by the family’s sensational disappearance. Were they eliminated by the Soviet intelligence service? Or have the Digbys defected to Moscow with a trove of the West’s most vital secrets? Four years later, Ruth Macallister receives a postcard from the twin sister she hasn’t seen since their catastrophic parting in Rome in the summer of 1940, as war engulfed the continent and Iris fell desperately in love with an enigmatic United States Embassy official named Sasha Digby. Within days, Ruth is on her way to Moscow, posing as the wife of counterintelligence agent Sumner Fox in a precarious plot to extract the Digbys from behind the Iron Curtain. But the complex truth behind Iris’s marriage defies Ruth’s understanding, and as the sisters race toward safety, a dogged Soviet KGB officer forces them to make a heartbreaking choice between two irreconcilable loyalties.

One of Summer’s Most Anticipated Reads, according to Goodreads, SheReads, and Bookish “I think Beatriz Williams is writing the best historical fiction out there. It’s lush with period detail but feels immediate.”—Elin Hilderbrand The beloved author returns with a remarkable novel of both raw suspense and lyric beauty— the story of a lost pilot and a wartime photographer that will leave its mark on your soul. In 1947, photographer and war correspondent Janey Everett arrives at a remote surfing village on the Hawaiian island of Kauai to research a planned biography of forgotten aviation pioneer Sam Mallory, who joined the loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War and never returned. Obsessed with Sam’s fate, Janey has tracked down Irene Lindquist, the owner of a local island-hopping airline, whom she believes might actually be the legendary Irene Foster, Mallory’s onetime student and flying partner. Foster’s disappearance during a round-the-world flight in 1937 remains one of the world’s greatest unsolved mysteries. At first, the flinty Mrs. Lindquist denies any connection to Foster. But Janey informs her that the wreck of Sam Mallory’s airplane has recently been discovered in a Spanish desert, and piece by piece, the details of Foster’s extraordinary life emerge: from the beginnings of her flying career in Southern California, to her complicated, passionate relationship with Mallory, to the collapse of her marriage to her aggressive career manager, the publishing scion George Morrow. As Irene spins her tale to its searing conclusion, Janey’s past gathers its own power. The duel between the two women takes a heartstopping turn. To whom does Mallory rightfully belong? Can we ever come to terms with the loss of those we love, and the lives we might have lived?

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. . . .

The dazzling narrator of The Wicked City brings her mesmerizing voice and indomitable spirit to another Jazz Age tale of rumrunners, double crosses, and true love, spanning the Eastern seaboard from Florida to Long Island to Halifax, Nova Scotia. 1924. Ginger Kelly wakes up in tranquil Cocoa Beach, Florida, having fled south to safety in the company of disgraced Prohibition agent Oliver Anson Marshall and her newly-orphaned young sister, Patsy. But paradise is short-lived. Marshall is reinstated to the agency with suspicious haste and put to work patrolling for rumrunners on the high seas, from which he promptly disappears. Gin hurries north to rescue him, only to be trapped in an agonizing moral quandary by Marshall’s desperate mother. 1998. Ella Dommerich has finally settled into her new life in Greenwich Village, inside the same apartment where a certain redheaded flapper lived long ago...and continues to make her presence known. Having quit her ethically problematic job at an accounting firm, cut ties with her unfaithful ex-husband, and begun an epic love affair with Hector, her musician neighbor, Ella’s eager to piece together the history of the mysterious Gin Kelly, whose only physical trace is a series of rare vintage photograph cards for which she modeled before she disappeared. Two women, two generations, two urgent quests. But as Ginger and Ella track down their separate quarries with increasing desperation, the mysteries consuming them take on unsettling echoes of each other, and both women will require all their strength and ingenuity to outwit a conspiracy spanning decades.

Ein Held zum Niederknien, zwei starke Frauen und eine unwiderstehliche Liebe ... New York, 1922. Mrs. Theresa Marshall – eine selbstbewusste, schillernde Society Lady – muss sich eingestehen, dass sie verliebt ist. Nicht in ihren meist abwesenden Ehemann, sondern in den klugen, sanftmütigen Captain Octavian Rofrano. Octavian würde Theresa die Welt zu Füßen legen, doch eine Scheidung kommt für eine Frau von ihrem Ansehen nicht infrage. Dann tritt Sophie Fortescue in ihr Leben, die junge Verlobte von Theresas Bruder. Sophies Familie umgibt ein Geheimnis, das Theresa entschlossen ist aufzudecken – sie ahnt jedoch nicht, dass die Konsequenzen dramatisch sein werden ...

“The Golden Hour is pure golden delight Beatriz Williams is at the top of her game.” —Kate Quinn, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Alice Network Beatriz Williams, the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives, is back with another hot summer read; a dazzling epic of World War II in which a beautiful young “society reporter” is sent to the Bahamas, a haven of spies, traitors, and the infamous Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The Bahamas, 1941. Newly-widowed Leonora “Lulu” Randolph arrives in the Bahamas to investigate the Governor and his wife for a New York society magazine. After all, American readers have an insatiable appetite for news of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, that glamorous couple whose love affair nearly brought the British monarchy to its knees five years earlier. What more intriguing backdrop for their romance than a wartime Caribbean paradise, a colonial playground for kingpins of ill-gotten empires? Or so Lulu imagines. But as she infiltrates the Duke and Duchess’s social circle, and the powerful cabal that controls the islands’ political and financial affairs, she uncovers evidence that beneath the glister of Wallis and Edward’s marriage lies an ugly—and even treasonous—reality. In fact, Windsor-era Nassau seethes with spies, financial swindles, and racial tension, and in the middle of it all stands Benedict Thorpe: a scientist of tremendous charm and murky national loyalties. Inevitably, the willful and wounded Lulu falls in love. Then Nassau’s wealthiest man is murdered in one of the most notorious cases of the century, and the resulting coverup reeks of royal privilege. Benedict Thorpe disappears without a trace, and Lulu embarks on a journey to London and beyond to unpick Thorpe’s complicated family history: a fateful love affair, a wartime tragedy, and a mother from whom all joy is stolen. The stories of two unforgettable women thread together in this extraordinary epic of espionage, sacrifice, human love, and human courage, set against a shocking true crime . . . and the rise and fall of a legendary royal couple.

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.

Unbezähmbare Heldinnen, eine Welt voller Geheimnisse und eine Liebe, so stark, dass sie Jahrzehnte überdauerte ... Pepper Schuyler war schon immer eine Klasse für sich – und das sind auch die Probleme, mit denen sie sich im Herbst 1966 konfrontiert sieht. Nachdem sie einen alten Mercedes Roadster restauriert und versteigert hat, hofft sie auf eine sichere Zukunft für sich und ihr ungeborenes Baby, das Ergebnis einer Affäre mit einem einflussreichen, verheirateten Politiker. Doch die Käuferin Annabelle Dommerich hat ganz eigene Geheimnisse, und als sie Pepper unerwartet in ihr Haus in Florida einlädt, offenbart sich nach und nach die erstaunliche Herkunft des Wagens – und mit ihr die dramatische Geschichte einer Flucht aus Europa vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg und einer Liebe, die noch dreißig Jahre später alles verändern wird ... Die East-Coast-Reihe von Beatriz Williams bei Blanvalet: 1. Im Herzen des Sturms 2. Das geheime Leben der Violet Grant 3. Träume wie Sand und Meer 4. Die letzten Stunden des Sommers 5. Unser Traum von Freiheit Alle Bände auch einzeln lesbar.

“The Summer Wives is an exquisitely rendered novel that tackles two of my favorite topics: love and money. The glorious setting and drama are enriched by Williams’s signature vintage touch. It’s at the top of my picks for the beach this summer.” —Elin Hilderbrand, author of The Perfect Couple New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams brings us the blockbuster novel of the season—an electrifying postwar fable of love, class, power, and redemption set among the inhabitants of an island off the New England coast . . . In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer house on Winthrop overlooks the famous lighthouse, Miranda’s catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails, status and swimming pools. Isobel Fisher, Miranda’s new stepsister—all long legs and world-weary bravado, engaged to a wealthy Island scion—is eager to draw Miranda into the arcane customs of Winthrop society. But beneath the island’s patrician surface, there are really two clans: the summer families with their steadfast ways and quiet obsessions, and the working class of Portuguese fishermen and domestic workers who earn their living on the water and in the laundries of the summer houses. Uneasy among Isobel’s privileged friends, Miranda finds herself drawn to Joseph Vargas, whose father keeps the lighthouse with his mysterious wife. In summer, Joseph helps his father in the lobster boats, but in the autumn he returns to Brown University, where he’s determined to make something of himself. Since childhood, Joseph’s enjoyed an intense, complex friendship with Isobel Fisher, and as the summer winds to its end, Miranda’s caught in a catastrophe that will shatter Winthrop’s hard-won tranquility and banish Miranda from the island for nearly two decades. Now, in the landmark summer of 1969, Miranda returns at last, as a renowned Shakespearean actress hiding a terrible heartbreak. On its surface, the Island remains the same—determined to keep the outside world from its shores, fiercely loyal to those who belong. But the formerly powerful Fisher family is a shadow of itself, and Joseph Vargas has recently escaped the prison where he was incarcerated for the murder of Miranda’s stepfather eighteen years earlier. What’s more, Miranda herself is no longer a naïve teenager, and she begins a fierce, inexorable quest for justice for the man she once loved . . . even if it means uncovering every last one of the secrets that bind together the families of Winthrop Island.

Des tensions de l''Europe en guerre à l''Amérique jazzy des sixties, Beatriz Williams livre un final palpitant, une magnifique histoire d''amitié et de passion, pour ponctuer la trilogie des sœurs Schuyler. À l''automne 1966, l''intrépide Pepper Schuyler est dans les ennuis jusqu''au cou : non seulement la belle est enceinte de son ex-patron, politicien influent qui la pourchasse à travers le pays, mais elle se retrouve seule et sans ressources. Son unique bien : une Mercedes de collection, qu''elle vient de vendre pour une coquette somme à une mystérieuse acquéreuse, Annabelle Dommerich. Il faut dire que cette célèbre violoncelliste française attache une valeur sentimentale particulière à ce véhicule. Elle seule connaît l''histoire de cette voiture, de sa course éperdue à travers l''Allemagne nazie jusqu''à son arrivée en Amérique. Et le destin des deux amants en fuite qu''elle abritait... Alors qu''Annabelle décide de prendre Pepper sous son aile et lui offre un refuge sur une plage déserte de Floride, les deux femmes se livrent peu à peu leurs secrets. Ensemble, parviendront-elles à affronter les zones d''ombre de leur passé ?

Drei Frauen in bewegten Zeiten und ein Schicksal, das sie alle verbindet ... Manhattan 1945: Die junge Ärztin Kate Schuyler und ihr Patient, der verletzte Soldat Cooper Ravenal, fühlen sich sofort zueinander hingezogen. Doch wer ist die Frau auf dem Bild in Coopers Amulett, die wie Kate aussieht? Als sich die beiden langsam näher kommen, finden sie heraus, dass ihre Familien seit Generationen durch ein tragisches Schicksal verbunden sind, das vor allem das Leben der Schuyler-Frauen bestimmt und seinen Anfang im »saphirblauen Zimmer« nahm. Dieses besondere Zimmer soll sich in einem großbürgerlichen Haus an der Upper East Side befinden und könnte auch Kate und Cooper vor ungeahnte Entscheidungen stellen ...

The New York Times bestselling author of A Certain Age transports readers to sunny Florida in this lush and enthralling historical novel—an enchanting blend of love, suspense, betrayal, and redemption set among the rumrunners and scoundrels of Prohibition-era Cocoa Beach. Burdened by a dark family secret, Virginia Fortescue flees her oppressive home in New York City for the battlefields of World War I France. While an ambulance driver for the Red Cross, she meets a charismatic British army surgeon whose persistent charm opens her heart to the possibility of love. As the war rages, Virginia falls into a passionate affair with the dashing Captain Simon Fitzwilliam, only to discover that his past has its own dark secrets—secrets that will damage their eventual marriage and propel her back across the Atlantic to the sister and father she left behind. Five years later, in the early days of Prohibition, the newly widowed Virginia Fitzwilliam arrives in the tropical boomtown of Cocoa Beach, Florida, to settle her husband’s estate. Despite the evidence, Virginia does not believe Simon perished in the fire that destroyed the seaside home he built for her and their young daughter. Separated from her husband since the early days of their marriage, the headstrong Virginia plans to uncover the truth, for the sake of the daughter Simon never met. Simon’s brother and sister welcome her with open arms and introduce her to a dazzling new world of citrus groves, white beaches, bootleggers, and Prohibition agents. But Virginia senses a predatory presence lurking beneath the irresistible, hedonistic surface of this coastal oasis. The more she learns about Simon and his mysterious business interests, the more she fears that the dangers that surrounded Simon now threaten her and their daughter’s life as well.

Avec pour toile de fond la bonne société de l''Amérique des sixties, Beatriz Williams livre le magnifique et troublant portrait d''une femme prise au piège de la passion, du pouvoir et du mensonge. 1966, Cape Cod. " Tiny " c''est Christina, la troisième sœur de la famille Schuyler, la plus élégante, la plus douce, la plus parfaite. Mariée à Frank Hardcastle, homme politique très influent, Tiny mène une vie de gala et de cocktails dans les jardins cossus de Cape Cod, où les Hardcastle ont établi leur bastion. Mais alors que Frank est donné favori pour les élections présidentielles, deux événements viennent troubler la vie a priori idyllique de sa belle épouse : c''est d''abord les courriers menaçants d''un maître chanteur ; puis, les retrouvailles inattendues et déstabilisantes avec le vétéran Caspian Harrison, de retour de la guerre du Vietnam. Avec ce premier amour qui réapparaît, c''est tout le passé de Tiny qui ressurgit. Un passé bien moins lisse qu''il n''y paraît, fait de passion, de mensonges, de drames. Et dont l''écho, s''il venait à gronder, pourrait nuire à la réputation irréprochable de toute la famille Hardcastle... Les sentiments ont-ils une place dans la course au pouvoir suprême ?

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Certain Age, a deliciously spicy new Jazz Age adventure and the first book of a breathtaking new trilogy by bestselling author Beatriz Williams. Two generations of women are brought together inside a Greenwich Village apartment —a flapper hiding an extraordinary past, and a modern-day Manattanite forced to start her life anew. When she discovers her banker husband has been harboring a secret life, Ella Gilbert escapes her SoHo loft for a studio in Greenwich Village. Her charismatic musician neighbor, Hector, warns her to stay out of the basement after midnight, when a symphony of mysterious noise strikes up—laughter, clinking glasses, jazz piano, the occasional bloodcurdling scream—even though the space has been empty for decades. Back in the Roaring Twenties, the basement was home to one of the city’s most notorious speakeasies. In 1924, Geneva “Gin” Kelly, a quick-witted flapper from the hills of western Maryland, is a regular at this Village hideaway. Caught up in a raid, Gin lands in the office of Prohibition enforcement agent Oliver Anson, who persuades her to help him catch her stepfather, Duke Kelly, one of the biggest bootleggers in Appalachia. But Gin is nobody’s fool. She strikes a risky bargain with the taciturn, straight-arrow Revenue agent, and their alliance rattles Manhattan society to its foundations, exposing secrets that shock even this free-spirited redhead. As Ella unravels the strange history of her new building—and the family thread that connects her to Geneva Kelly—she senses the Jazz Age spirit of her exuberant predecessor invading her own shy nature, in ways that will transform her existence in the wicked city.

Eine Frau mit großen Träumen, ein Sommer voller Geheimnisse und eine Liebe, so verboten wie leidenschaftlich ... Cape Cod, Sommer 1966. Christina, genannt Tiny, hatte einmal große Träume: Sie wollte Tänzerin werden, und sie wollte sich verlieben. Nun ist sie verheiratet mit einem der begehrtesten Männer des Landes, ihr Leben scheint perfekt – doch warum verspürt Tiny dann den unbändigen Drang, dem schicken Sommerhaus ihrer angeheirateten Familie den Rücken zu kehren und aus allem auszubrechen? Als ihre unberechenbare Schwester Pepper in ihr Leben platzt, im Schlepptau den Mann, dem Tiny einst ihr Herz schenkte, und sie dann auch noch Erpresserbriefe mit kompromittierenden Fotos erhält, begreift Tiny nach und nach, dass ihr makelloses Leben unerwartete Gefahren birgt und sie all ihren Mut aufbringen muss, um ihr Glück endlich selbst in die Hand zu nehmen. Die East-Coast-Reihe von Beatriz Williams bei Blanvalet: 1. Im Herzen des Sturms 2. Das geheime Leben der Violet Grant 3. Träume wie Sand und Meer 4. Die letzten Stunden des Sommers 5. Unser Traum von Freiheit

The bestselling author of A Hundred Summers brings the Roaring Twenties brilliantly to life in this enchanting and compulsively readable tale of intrigue, romance, and scandal in New York Society, brimming with lush atmosphere, striking characters, and irresistible charm. As the freedom of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent Mrs. Theresa Marshall of Fifth Avenue and Southampton, Long Island, has done the unthinkable: she’s fallen in love with her young paramour, Captain Octavian Rofrano, a handsome aviator and hero of the Great War. An intense and deeply honorable man, Octavian is devoted to the beautiful socialite of a certain age and wants to marry her. While times are changing and she does adore the Boy, divorce for a woman of Theresa’s wealth and social standing is out of the question, and there is no need; she has an understanding with Sylvo, her generous and well-respected philanderer husband. But their relationship subtly shifts when her bachelor brother, Ox, decides to tie the knot with the sweet younger daughter of a newly wealthy inventor. Engaging a longstanding family tradition, Theresa enlists the Boy to act as her brother’s cavalier, presenting the family’s diamond rose ring to Ox’s intended, Miss Sophie Fortescue—and to check into the background of the little-known Fortescue family. When Octavian meets Sophie, he falls under the spell of the pretty ingénue, even as he uncovers a shocking family secret. As the love triangle of Theresa, Octavian, and Sophie progresses, it transforms into a saga of divided loyalties, dangerous revelations, and surprising twists that will lead to a shocking transgression . . . and eventually force Theresa to make a bittersweet choice. Full of the glamour, wit and delicious twists that are the hallmarks of Beatriz Williams’ fiction and alternating between Sophie’s spirited voice and Theresa’s vibrant timbre, A Certain Age is a beguiling reinterpretation of Richard Strauss’s comic opera Der Rosenkavalier, set against the sweeping decadence of Gatsby’s New York.

New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams introduces Octavian Rofrano, from her forthcoming new novel, A Certain Age, in this short story about a lonely American pilot in 1920s Paris and those he’s never forgotten. Octavian Rofrano has never met the girl whose photograph was his constant companion through the long days and nights of the Great War. The promises he made to himself and that far-away image in the silence of his cockpit have never left him, but the anguish and loneliness of post-Armistice Paris has crept into his bones. One night, Octavian finally decides to lose himself in the sad beauty the City of Lights offers, but as reminders of that 11th day of November fill his mind, can he let go of past hopes or does the promise of salvation still have a hold on him? Originally published in the moving collection Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and The Great War, this e-book also includes an excerpt from Williams’ new novel, A Certain Age, coming in June 2016.

Top voices in historical fiction deliver an unforgettable collection of short stories set in the aftermath of World War I—featuring bestselling authors such as Hazel Gaynor, Jennifer Robson, Beatriz Williams, and Lauren Willig and edited by Heather Webb. On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month... November 11, 1918. After four long, dark years of fighting, the Great War ends at last, and the world is forever changed. For soldiers, loved ones, and survivors the years ahead stretch with new promise, even as their hearts are marked by all those who have been lost. As families come back together, lovers reunite, and strangers take solace in each other, everyone has a story to tell. In this moving anthology, nine authors share stories of love, strength, and renewal as hope takes root in a fall of poppies. Featuring: Jessica Brockmole Hazel Gaynor Evangeline Holland Marci Jefferson Kate Kerrigan Jennifer Robson Beatriz Williams Lauren Willig Heather Webb

Christina "Tiny" Hardcastle, the wife of a politician with aspirations to national office, struggles to keep up her perfect life despite the unwelcome arrival of her unpredictable sister, Pepper, and an incriminating photograph.

New York Times bestselling authors Karen White, Beatriz Williams, and Lauren Willig present a masterful collaboration--a rich, multigenerational novel of love and loss that spans half a century.... 1945: When critically wounded Captain Cooper Ravenel is brought to a private hospital on Manhattan''s Upper East Side, young Dr. Kate Schuyler is drawn into a complex mystery that connects three generations of women in her family to a single extraordinary room in a Gilded Age mansion. Who is the woman in Captain Ravenel''s miniature portrait who looks so much like Kate? And why is she wearing the ruby pendant handed down to Kate by her mother? In their pursuit of answers, they find themselves drawn into the turbulent stories of Olive Van Alan, driven in the Gilded Age from riches to rags, who hired out as a servant in the very house her father designed, and Lucy Young, who in the Jazz Age came from Brooklyn to Manhattan seeking the father she had never known. But are Kate and Cooper ready for the secrets that will be revealed in the Forgotten Room? READERS GUIDE INCLUDED

From the New York Times bestselling author of Husbands & Lovers comes another riveting novel of the Schuyler sisters—where the epic story of star-crossed lovers in pre-war Europe collides with a woman on the run in the swinging ''60s... In the autumn of 1966, Pepper Schuyler''s problems are in a class of their own. To find a way to take care of herself and the baby she carries—the result of an affair with a married, legendary politician—she fixes up a beautiful and rare vintage Mercedes and sells it at auction. But the car''s new owner, the glamorous Annabelle Dommerich, has her own secrets: a Nazi husband, a Jewish lover, a flight from Europe, and a love so profound it transcends decades. As the many threads of Annabelle''s life before the Second World War stretch out to entangle Pepper in 1960s America, and the father of her unborn baby tracks her down to a remote town in coastal Georgia, the two women must come together to face down the shadows of their complicated pasts. AN INDIE NEXT AND LIBRARY READS PICK A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR THE BEST OF SKIMMREADS 2016