Spring 1921. The Great War is over,
Prohibition is in full
swing, the Depression still years away, and Newport,
Rhode Island's glittering
“summer cottages” are inhabited by the gloriously rich
families who built
them.
Attorney Adrian De la Noye is no stranger to Newport,
having sheltered there
during his misspent youth. Though he’d prefer to forget
the place, he returns
to revise the will of a well-heeled client. Bennett
Chapman's offspring have
the usual concerns about their father's much-younger
fiancée. But when they
learn of the old widower’s firm belief that his first
late wife, who
“communicates” via séance, has chosen the beautiful
Catherine Walsh for him,
they’re shocked. And for Adrian, encountering Catherine
in the last place he
saw her decades ago proves to be a far greater surprise.
Still, De la Noye is here to handle a will, and he fully
intends to do so—just
as soon as he unearths every last secret, otherworldly or
not, about the
Chapmans, Catherine Walsh . . . and his own very fraught
history.
A skillful alchemy of social satire, dark humor, and
finely drawn characters,
Newport vividly brings to life the glitzy era of the
1920s.
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