The “Unibrain” that is the author team of Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White strike again! The Lost Summers of Newport is their fourth collaboration, and perhaps my favorite of theirs to date…but given the number of times they’ve written a messy family saga (both individually and collectively) it’s a testament to their creativity that their work in the genre remains fresh.
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.Īs the cameras roll on Mansion Makeover, the house begins to yield up the dark secrets the Spragues thought would stay hidden forever…. 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. 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. But the deceptively demure Ellen has her own checkered past, and she’s hiding in plain sight at Sprague Hall.ġ958: Lucia “Lucky” Sprague has always felt like an outsider at Sprague Hall. 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. Two, nobody touches the mansion’s ruined boathouse.ġ899: 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.
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. 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.
“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”Ģ019: 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. ISBN-13: 978-0063040748 | $28.99 USD | 400 pages | Historical Fictionįrom 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.
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