First published 2010
Letty Larkspur arrives in Manhattan with dreams of Broadway stardom. She discovers the city overflows with beautiful girls willing to sacrifice anything for their names in lights. Her friend Cordelia Grey searches for her mysterious father, a man known for extravagant parties and dangerous business dealings. Cordelia enters a glittering world that proves more perilous than she anticipated. The only person she trusts is Astrid Donal, a wealthy flapper dating Cordelia's brother Charlie. Astrid appears to possess everything money, beauty, and love but conceals dark family secrets beneath her polished exterior. The three women navigate Broadway theaters, illegal speakeasies, and Long Island estates as their lives intertwine. Each pursues her own desires in the final summer of the Jazz Age, when prosperity seems endless and rules exist to be broken. Their fortunes shift as they discover that in a world where anyone would kill for success, someone actually will.
Genres: romance, american-fiction, historical-fiction, 20th-century
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Long Island, Manhattan
Period: 1920s
253 pages · Kindle Edition · HarperCollins