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Motivated by the midcentury memoirs of Frances Conway, Enchanted Islands is the amazing story of an independent American woman whose path takes her far from her native Minnesota when she and her husband, an undercover cleverness officer, are sent to the Galápagos Islands at the brink of World Battle II. Delivered in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1882 to immigrant parents, Frances Frankowski covets the life span of her best ally, Rosalie Mendel, who has everything Fanny could want - money, parents who value education, and an effervescent and receiving personality. When, at get older 15, Rosalie chooses they should run away to Chicago, Fanny jumps at the chance to avoid her unexceptional life. But inside a calendar year, Rosalie commits an unforgivable betrayal, inciting Frances to attack from her own. Years later the women reconnect in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA and realize how broadly their lives have diverged. While Rosalie is a housewife and mom, Frances works as a secretary for any office of Naval Brains. There she is created to Ainslie Conway, an cleverness operator 10 years her junior. When it's arranged for Frances and Ainslie to marry and perform a quest on the Galápagos Islands, the couple's identities - already covered from each other - are further buried under their new cover stories. No more a lonesome spinster, Frances is about to begin the most fascinating and intrigue-filled years of her life. Amid active volcanoes, forbidding animals and flora, and unfriendly neighborhood friends, Ainslie and Frances carve out a life for themselves. However the secrets they harbor from other opponents and from each other may be their undoing. Attracting on the rich history of the early 20th hundred years and arranged against a big, colorful canvas, Enchanted Islands boldly examines the complexness of female a friendly relationship, the universal quest for a destination to call home, and the reverberations of secrets we keep from others and from ourselves.
