William Morrow
September 2018
On Sale: September 4, 2018
416 pages ISBN: 0062642456 EAN: 9780062642455 Kindle: B074Z5PYLN Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
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.