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New York Times best-selling publisher Beatriz Williams re-creates the brand new York City of A Certain Era in this deliciously spicy excitement that mixes earlier and present and centers around a Jazz Era love triangle concerning a durable Prohibition agent, a saucy redheaded flapper, and a debonair Princetonian from a prosperous family. When she discovers her hubby cheating, Ella Hawthorne impulsively moves out with their SoHo loft and into a little apartment within an old Greenwich Town building. Her interestingly attractive new neighbor, Hector, warns her to remain from the basement during the night. Tenants have reported unusual noises after midnight - laughter, clinking spectacles, jazz piano - even although space has been unfilled for decades. Back in the Roaring '20s, the area hid a speakeasy. In 1924, Geneva "Gin" Kelly, a smart-mouthed flapper from the hills of European Maryland, is a regular at this Town hideaway known as the Christopher Golf club. Caught up in a raid, Gin becomes entangled with Prohibition enforcement agent Oliver Anson, who persuades her to help him catch her stepfather, Duke Kelly, one of Appalachia's most notorious bootleggers. Headstrong and 3rd party, Gin is not a weak-kneed fool. Just how can she be dropping in love with the taciturn, straight-arrow income agent when she's acquired Princeton youngster Billy Marshall, the dashing child of culture doyenne Theresa Marshall, begging to make a genuine girl of her? While anything goes in the Roaring '20s, Gin's escapades will shake proper Manhattan culture to its foundations, revealing secrets that impact even this free-spirited redhead - secrets that will echo from Area Avenue to the hollers of her Southern hometown. As Ella discovers more about the cellar speakeasy, she becomes motivated by the nature of her exuberant forerunner and decides to reside with abandon in the wicked city, too.
