Feeling restless and longing for a different existence, Caroline is determined to stop being a bystander and take charge of her own life. She’s hoping a trip to London in Lusitania’s lavish first-class accommodations will help them reconnect - but she can’t ignore the spark she feels for her old friend, Robert Langford, who turns out to be on the same voyage. Her formerly attentive industrialist husband, Gilbert, has become remote, preoccupied with business.and something else on which she can’t quite put a finger. Southern belle Caroline Telfair Hochstetter’s marriage is in crisis. Sarah embarks on an ambitious journey to England to enlist the help of John Langford, a recently disgraced member of parliament whose family archives might contain the only key to the long-ago catastrophe. What she discovers there could change history. Desperate, she breaks the one promise she made to her Alzheimer’s-stricken mother and opens an old chest that belonged to her great-grandfather, who died when the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915. Her finances are in dire straits, and best-selling author Sarah Blake is struggling to find a big idea for her next book. From the New York Times best-selling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century - two deep in the past, one in the present - to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania.
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