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Beatriz Williams the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives is back with another hot summer read; a dazzling epic of World War II in which a beautiful young “society reporter” is sent to the Bahamas a haven of spies traitors and the infamous Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The Bahamas 1941. Newly-widowed Leonora “Lulu” Randolph arrives in the Bahamas to iBeatriz Williams the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives is back with another hot summer read; a dazzling epic of World War II in which a beautiful young “society reporter” is sent to the Bahamas a haven of spies traitors and the infamous Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The Bahamas 1941. Newly-widowed Leonora “Lulu” Randolph arrives in the Bahamas to investigate the Governor and his wife for a New York society magazine. After all American readers have an insatiable appetite for news of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor that glamorous couple whose love affair nearly brought the British monarchy to its knees five years earlier. What more intriguing backdrop for their romance than a wartime Caribbean paradise a colonial playground for kingpins of ill-gotten empires?Or so Lulu imagines. But as she infiltrates the Duke and Duchesss social circle and the powerful cabal that controls the islands political and financial affairs she uncovers evidence that beneath the glister of Wallis and Edwards marriage lies an ugly—and even treasonous—reality. In fact Windsor-era Nassau seethes with spies financial swindles and racial tension and in the middle of it all stands Benedict Thorpe: a scientist of tremendous charm and murky national loyalties. Inevitably the willful and wounded Lulu falls in love.Then Nassaus wealthiest man is murdered in one of the most notorious cases of the century and the resulting coverup reeks of royal privilege. Benedict Thorpe disappears without a trace and Lulu embarks on a journey to London and beyond to unpick Thorpes complicated family history: a fateful love affair a wartime tragedy and a mother from whom all joy is stolen.The stories of two unforgettable women thread together in this extraordinary epic of espionage sacrifice human love and human courage set against a shocking true crime . . . and the rise and fall of a legendary royal couple.(less)