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William Morrow
July 2015
On Sale: July 7, 2015
Featuring: Adrian De la Noye; Catherine Walsh
384 pages
ISBN: 0062375857
EAN: 9780062375858
Kindle: B00OG9IUAI
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Historical
Spring 1921. The Great War is over, Prohibition is in full swing, the Depression still years away, and Newport, Rhode Island's glittering βsummer cottagesβ 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 heβd 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 fiancΓ©e. But when they learn of the old widowerβs firm belief that his first late wife, who βcommunicatesβ via sΓ©ance, has chosen the beautiful Catherine Walsh for him, theyβre 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 soβjust 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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