I’m also grateful to Sean and Kara Nottage for their friendship and their kind hospitality during our visit to the Bahamas, which set this book idea into motion.

Finally, my family puts up with all my travel, my periodic hibernations, my random outbursts, and the mood swings that come with life in an audience-facing creative field, and gives me (well, mostly!) nothing but love in return. Thanks and love, always.

About the Author

BEATRIZ WILLIAMS is the bestselling author of nine novels, including The Summer Wives, A Hundred Summers, The Secret Life of Violet Grant, and A Certain Age. A native of Seattle, she graduated from Stanford University and earned an MBA in finance from Columbia University, then spent several years in New York and London as a corporate strategy consultant before pursuing her passion for historical fiction. She lives with her husband and four children near the Connecticut shore, where she divides her time between writing and laundry.

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Also by Beatriz Williams

• The Summer Wives
• Cocoa Beach
• The Wicked City
• A Certain Age
• Along the Infinite Sea
• Tiny Little Thing
• The Secret Life of Violet Grant
• A Hundred Summers
• Overseas

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