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The New York Times best-selling author of A Certain Years transports listeners to sunlit Florida in this lush and enthralling historical novel - an charming blend of love, suspense, betrayal, and redemption arranged among the rumrunners and scoundrels of Prohibition-era Cocoa Beach. Burdened by the dark family top secret, Virginia Fortescue flees her oppressive home in NEW YORK for the battlefields of World War I France. While an ambulance drivers for the Red Mix, she fits a charismatic English army physician whose persistent appeal opens her heart and soul to the probability of love. As the battle rages, Virginia comes into a separate affair with the dashing Captain Simon Fitzwilliam, and then discover that his history has its own dark secrets - secrets that will harm their eventual marriage and propel her back again over the Atlantic to the sister and dad she left out. Five years later, in the first days and nights of Prohibition, the newly widowed Virginia Fitzwilliam comes in the exotic boomtown of Cocoa Beach, Florida, to settle her husband's property. Despite the proof, Virginia will not consider Simon perished in the hearth that demolished the seaside home he built on her behalf and their young girl. Separated from her hubby since the start of their marriage, the headstrong Virginia ideas to uncover the reality, for the sake of the girl Simon never attained. Simon's brother and sister welcome her with open up arms and introduce her to a amazing " new world " of citrus groves, white beaches, bootleggers, and Prohibition agencies. But Virginia senses a predatory presence lurking under the amazing, hedonistic surface of this coastal oasis. The greater she learns about Simon and his strange business interests, a lot more she fears that the hazards that bounded Simon now threaten her and their daughter's life as well.
