The Golden Hour | Bookzio

Author:
Beatriz Williams

Category:
Historical Fiction

Regular worth:
$12.99

Deal worth:
$1.99

Deal begins:
October 09, 2022

Deal ends:
October 09, 2022

“The Golden Hour is pure golden delight Beatriz Williams is at the top of her game.” —Kate Quinn, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Alice Network

Beatriz Williams, the New York Times bestselling creator of The Summer Wives, is again with one other scorching summer time learn; a blinding epic of World War II during which a gorgeous younger “society reporter” is distributed to the Bahamas, a haven of spies, traitors, and the notorious Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The Bahamas, 1941. Newly-widowed Leonora “Lulu” Randolph arrives within the Bahamas to analyze the Governor and his spouse for a New York society journal. After all, American readers have an insatiable urge for food for information of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, that glamorous couple whose love affair almost introduced the British monarchy to its knees 5 years earlier. What extra intriguing backdrop for his or her 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 Duchess’s social circle, and the highly effective cabal that controls the islands’ political and monetary affairs, she uncovers proof that beneath the glister of Wallis and Edward’s marriage lies an unpleasant—and even treasonous—actuality. In truth, Windsor-era Nassau seethes with spies, monetary swindles, and racial stress, and in the course of all of it stands Benedict Thorpe: a scientist of great allure and murky nationwide loyalties. Inevitably, the willful and wounded Lulu falls in love.

Then Nassau’s wealthiest man is murdered in some of the infamous instances of the century, and the ensuing coverup reeks of royal privilege. Benedict Thorpe disappears and not using a hint, and Lulu embarks on a journey to London and past to unpick Thorpe’s difficult household historical past: a fateful love affair, a wartime tragedy, and a mom from whom all pleasure is stolen.

The tales of two unforgettable ladies thread collectively on this extraordinary epic of espionage, sacrifice, human love, and human braveness, set in opposition to a surprising true crime . . . and the rise and fall of a legendary royal couple.