THE BRAND NEW York Times bestselling writer of THE SUMMERTIME Wives and A Certain Age creates a dazzling epic of World War II-era Nassau-a hotbed of spies, traitors, and the most infamous couple of the age, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

The Bahamas, 1941. Newly-widowed Leonora “Lulu” Randolph will come in Nassau to investigate the Governor and his wife for a fresh York society publication. After all, American readers have an insatiable urge for food for news from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, that gorgeous about The Golden Hour: A Book couple whose romance almost brought the United kingdom monarchy to its legs five years previous. What more interesting backdrop because of their romance when compared to a wartime Caribbean heaven, a colonial playground for kingpins of ill-gotten empires?

Or so Lulu imagines. But simply because she infiltrates the Duke and Duchess’s sociable circle, and the powerful cabal that controls the islands’ politics and monetary affairs, she uncovers evidence that beneath the glister of Wallis and Edward’s marriage lies an ugly-and also treasonous-reality. Actually, Windsor-era Nassau seethes with spies, economic swindles, and racial stress, and in the middle of it all stands Benedict Thorpe: a scientist of tremendous elegance and murky nationwide loyalties. Undoubtedly, the willful and wounded Lulu falls in love.

After that Nassau’s wealthiest man is murdered in another of probably the most notorious cases from the century, as well as the resulting coverup reeks of royal privilege. Benedict Thorpe disappears with out a trace, and Lulu embarks on a journey to London and beyond to unpick Thorpe’s complicated genealogy: a fateful romance, a wartime tragedy, and a mom from whom all pleasure is stolen.

The stories of two memorable females thread together within this extraordinary epic of espionage, sacrifice, human love, and human courage, set against a shocking true crime…as well as the rise and fall of a legendary royal couple.