Gin Kelly, the wicked redhead, is back! Readers will delight in next
installment of the Wicked City series by New York Times bestselling
author Beatriz Williams.
June 1925. Audacious Appalachian flapper Geneva "Gin" Kelly prepares
to trade her high-flying ways for respectable marriage to Oliver Anson
Marshall, a steadfast Prohibition agent who happens to hail from one of
New York's most distinguished families. But just as wedding bells chime,
the head of the notorious East Coast rum-running racket--and Anson's
mortal enemy--turns up murdered at a society funeral, and their
short-lived honeymoon bliss goes up in a spectacular blaze that sends
Anson back undercover...and into the jaws of a trap from which not even
Gin can rescue him. As violence explodes around her, Gin must summon all
her considerable moxie to trace the tentacles of this sinister
organization back to their shocking source, and face down a legendary
American family at a rigged game it has no intention of losing.
June 1998. When Ella Dommerich's ninetysomething society queen aunt
Julie ropes her into digging up dirt on Senator (and Presidential
candidate) Franklin Hardcastle in order to settle old family scores, she
couldn't be less enthusiastic. Pregnant Ella's recently ditched her
unfaithful husband and settled into cozy--if complicated--domesticity
with her almost-too-good-to-be-true musician boyfriend, Hector. But
then the Hardcastle secrets lead to a web of shady dealings Ella's
uncovered in her job as a financial analyst, and the bodies start to
tumble out of the venerable woodwork. With the help of her ex-husband
and her mysterious connection to a certain redheaded flapper, Ella digs
up more than mere dirt...only to discover herself standing alone between
a legendarily ruthless family and the prize it's sought for generations.
What ugly secrets lurk in the opulent enclaves--and bank accounts--of
America's richest families? And can two determined women from two
different generations thwart the murderous legacy of the demon liquor?
