"The new novel from the author of "The Russian Concubine "and" Shadows on the Nile
"The Bahamas, 1943." Hoping to escape her turbulent past, twenty-three-year-old Dodie Wyatt has fled to Nassau. But the world is at war, and one night the peaceful life she has created for herself is shattered when she discovers a man dying in an alleyway
Ella Stanford is married to a powerful diplomat who s been appointed to keep the Duke of Windsor far from his Nazi friends in Germany. And in this city now teeming with danger, Ella has her own secrets ones that threaten to tear apart her safe and ordered life
When Ella s world collides with Dodie s, they find themselves caught in the spiral of violence and greed ripping through Nassau. But Dodie falls deeply in love with a mysterious American stranger on the island, and together they fight to uncover the truth behind the bloodshed, while struggling to keep each other alive in this perilous new world "