First published 2025
Audrey Fisher has spent years building her reputation as a world-class chef, determined to step out from her famous mother's shadow. When she and actress Meredith Fisher reluctantly return to Winthrop Island, Audrey discovers a wooden chest among her estranged father's belongings. Inside lies a collection of paintings by one of America's greatest artists, each canvas depicting the same mysterious woman. The discovery pulls both women into the island's buried history and draws the attention of their neighbor, Sedge Peabody. Two centuries earlier, Providence Dare fled Boston on a stormy November night in 1846, boarding the luxury steamship Atlantic just ahead of the law. When disaster strikes and the ship faces destruction in a violent gale, Providence becomes trapped in a deadly pursuit with a detective who knows her true identity and suspects her connection to painter Henry Irving's suspicious death. As the Atlantic battles toward Winthrop Island's rocky shore, Providence fights for survival while the fates of three women across two centuries begin to intertwine.
Genres: romance, historical-fiction, 20th-century, mystery, 21st-century, 19th-century
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, intertwined-fates
Setting: Boston, Winthrop Island
Period: 1846, Present Day
368 pages · Hardcover · Ballantine Books