April,1912: It’s the perfect
finale to a Grand Tour of Europe—sailing home on the largest, most
luxurious ocean liner ever built. For the Fortune sisters, the voyage
offers a chance to reflect on the treasures of the past they’ve
seen—magnificent castles and museums in Italy and France, the ruins of
Greece and the Middle East—and contemplate the futures that await them.
For Alice, there’s foreboding mixed with her excitement. A fortune
teller in Egypt gave her a dire warning about traveling at sea. And the
freedom she has enjoyed on her travels contrasts with her fiancé’s plans
for her return—a cossetted existence she’s no longer sure she wants.
Flora is also returning to a fiancé, a well-to-do banker of whom her
parents heartily approve, as befits their most dutiful daughter. Yet the
closer the wedding looms, the less sure Flora feels. Another
man—charming, exasperating, completely unsuitable—occupies her thoughts,
daring her to follow her own desires rather than settling for the
wishes of others.
Youngest sister Mabel knows her parents
arranged this Grand Tour to separate her from a jazz musician. But the
secret truth is that Helen has little interest in marrying at all,
preferring to explore ideas of suffrage and reform—even if it forces a
rift with her family.
Each sister grapples with the choices
before her as the grand vessel glides through the Atlantic waters.
Until, on an infamous night, fate intervenes, forever altering their
live.
About The Author
Anna Lee Huber is the USA Today bestselling & Daphne award-winning author of the Lady Darby Mysteries, the Verity Kent Mysteries, the Gothic Myths series, and the anthology The Deadly Hours. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she majored in music and minored in psychology. She currently resides in Indiana with her family and is hard at work on her next novel. Visit her online at www.annaleehuber.com.
My Review
The Fortune family from Winnipeg Canada, have been touring both Africa and Europe, from the pyramids to castles, and now are returning home to marriages of two of the three daughters traveling. Alice, Flora, and Mable, along with their parents and younger brother Charlie have finished their grand tour and now on the fastest, and safest ship ever built, heading home to their futures.
We are given a grand tour of the ship through Charlie, he has read everything available on this great ship! We are also there for some sweet shipboard romance, but can it continue? Unfortunately, we are there as the disaster happens, and further mistakes are made. We also see whom is able to survive.
I thank Anna Lee Huber for bringing this this story alive, and putting faces on this tragic journey! Be sure to read the Author's notes!
I received this book through Net Galley and the Publisher Kensington, and was not required to give a positive review.
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