Passion, redemption, and a battered suitcase full of
secrets: the New York Times-bestselling author of A Hundred
Summers returns with another engrossing tale.
Manhattan, 1964. Vivian Schuyler, newly graduated from Bryn
Mawr College, has recently defied the privilege of her
storied old Fifth Avenue family to do the unthinkable for a
budding Kennedy-era socialite: break into the Madison Avenue
world of razor-stylish Metropolitan magazine. But when she
receives a bulky overseas parcel in the mail, the unexpected
contents draw her inexorably back into her family’s past,
and the hushed-over crime passionnel of an aunt she never
knew, whose existence has been wiped from the record of history.
Berlin, 1914. Violet Schuyler Grant endures her marriage to
the philandering and decades-older scientist Dr. Walter
Grant for one reason: for all his faults, he provides the
necessary support to her liminal position as a young
American female physicist in prewar Germany. The arrival of
Dr. Grant’s magnetic former student at the beginning of
Europe’s fateful summer interrupts this delicate détente.
Lionel Richardson, a captain in the British Army, challenges
Violet to escape her husband’s perverse hold, and as the
world edges into war and Lionel’s shocking true motives
become evident, Violet is tempted to take the ultimate step
to set herself free and seek a life of her own conviction
with a man whose cause is as audacious as her own.
As the iridescent and fractured Vivian digs deeper into her
aunt’s past and the mystery of her ultimate fate, Violet’s
story of determination and desire unfolds, shedding light on
the darkness of her years abroad . . . and teaching Vivian
to reach forward with grace for the ambitious future––and
the love––she wants most.
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