From the New York Times bestselling author of A Certain Age, a
deliciously spicy new Jazz Age adventure and the first book of a
breathtaking new trilogy by bestselling author Beatriz Williams. Two
generations of women are brought together inside a Greenwich Village
apartment --a flapper hiding an extraordinary past, and a modern-day
Manattanite forced to start her life anew.
When she discovers her banker husband has been harboring a secret life,
Ella Gilbert escapes her SoHo loft for a studio in Greenwich Village.
Her charismatic musician neighbor, Hector, warns her to stay out of the
basement after midnight, when a symphony of mysterious noise strikes
up--laughter, clinking glasses, jazz piano, the occasional bloodcurdling
scream--even though the space has been empty for decades. Back in the
Roaring Twenties, the basement was home to one of the city's most
notorious speakeasies.
In 1924, Geneva "Gin" Kelly, a quick-witted flapper from the hills of
western Maryland, is a regular at this Village hideaway. Caught up in a
raid, Gin lands in the office of Prohibition enforcement agent Oliver
Anson, who persuades her to help him catch her stepfather, Duke Kelly,
one of the biggest bootleggers in Appalachia.
But Gin is nobody's fool. She strikes a risky bargain with the taciturn,
straight-arrow Revenue agent, and their alliance rattles Manhattan
society to its foundations, exposing secrets that shock even this
free-spirited redhead.
As Ella unravels the strange history of her new building--and the family
thread that connects her to Geneva Kelly--she senses the Jazz Age spirit
of her exuberant predecessor invading her own shy nature, in ways that
will transform her existence in the wicked city.
