The dazzling narrator of The Wicked City brings her mesmerizing
voice and indomitable spirit to another Jazz Age tale of rumrunners,
double crosses, and true love, spanning the Eastern seaboard from
Florida to Long Island to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1924. Ginger Kelly wakes up in tranquil Cocoa Beach, Florida, having
fled south to safety in the company of disgraced Prohibition agent
Oliver Anson Marshall and her newly-orphaned young sister, Patsy. But
paradise is short-lived. Marshall is reinstated to the agency with
suspicious haste and put to work patrolling for rumrunners on the high
seas, from which he promptly disappears. Gin hurries north to rescue
him, only to be trapped in an agonizing moral quandary by Marshall's
desperate mother.
1998. Ella Dommerich has finally settled into her new life in Greenwich
Village, inside the same apartment where a certain redheaded flapper
lived long ago...and continues to make her presence known. Having quit
her ethically problematic job at an accounting firm, cut ties with her
unfaithful ex-husband, and begun an epic love affair with Hector, her
musician neighbor, Ella's eager to piece together the history of the
mysterious Gin Kelly, whose only physical trace is a series of rare
vintage photograph cards for which she modeled before she disappeared.
Two women, two generations, two urgent quests. But as Ginger and Ella
track down their separate quarries with increasing desperation, the
mysteries consuming them take on unsettling echoes of each other, and
both women will require all their strength and ingenuity to outwit a
conspiracy spanning decades.
