Cocoa Beach: A Novel
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The New York Times bestselling author of A Certain Age transports readers to sunny Florida in this lush and enthralling historical novel—an enchanting blend of love, suspense, betrayal, and redemption set among the rumrunners and scoundrels of Prohibition-era Cocoa Beach.
Burdened by a dark family secret, Virginia Fortescue flees her oppressive home in New York City for the battlefields of World War I France. While an ambulance driver for the Red Cross, she meets a charismatic British army surgeon whose persistent charm opens her heart to the possibility of love. As the war rages, Virginia falls into a passionate affair with the dashing Captain Simon Fitzwilliam, only to discover that his past has its own dark secrets—secrets that will damage their eventual marriage and propel her back across the Atlantic to the sister and father she left behind.
Five years later, in the early days of Prohibition, the newly widowed Virginia Fitzwilliam arrives in the tropical boomtown of Cocoa Beach, Florida, to settle her husband's estate. Despite the evidence, Virginia does not believe Simon perished in the fire that destroyed the seaside home he built for her and their young daughter. Separated from her husband since the early days of their marriage, the headstrong Virginia plans to uncover the truth, for the sake of the daughter Simon never met.
Simon's brother and sister welcome her with open arms and introduce her to a dazzling new world of citrus groves, white beaches, bootleggers, and Prohibition agents. But Virginia senses a predatory presence lurking beneath the irresistible, hedonistic surface of this coastal oasis. The more she learns about Simon and his mysterious business interests, the more she fears that the dangers that surrounded Simon now threaten her and their daughter's life as well.
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Beatriz Williams. (2017). Cocoa Beach: A Novel. HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Beatriz Williams. 2017. Cocoa Beach: A Novel. HarperCollins.
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Beatriz Williams is the bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Her Last Flight, The Summer Wives, and The Golden Hour, as well as All the Ways We Said Goodbye, cowritten with Lauren Willig and Karen White. A native of Seattle, she graduated from Stanford University and earned an MBA in finance from Columbia University. She lives with her husband and four children near the Connecticut shore, where she divides her time between writing and laundry.
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The New York Times bestselling author of A Certain Age transports readers to sunny Florida in this lush and enthralling historical novel—an enchanting blend of love, suspense, betrayal, and redemption set among the rumrunners and scoundrels of Prohibition-era Cocoa Beach.
Burdened by a dark family secret, Virginia Fortescue flees her oppressive home in New York City for the battlefields of World War I France. While an ambulance driver for the Red Cross, she meets a charismatic British army surgeon whose persistent charm opens her heart to the possibility of love. As the war rages, Virginia falls into a passionate affair with the dashing Captain Simon Fitzwilliam, only to discover that his past has its own dark secrets—secrets that will damage their eventual marriage and propel her back across the Atlantic to the sister and father she left behind.
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Romance and mystery, war and Prohibition, infidelity and murder, inheritance and lies--the list of ingredients is long and potent in this cocktail of dramatic suspense rooted in early-20th-century Florida.Scarred for life by her mother's murder when she was 8 years old--a crime for which her father has now been convicted--Virginia Fortescue has just learned of a new tragic loss: the death, by fire, of her estranged British husband, Simon Fitzwilliam. This is just one of the many layers of intrigue in Williams' (The Wicked City, 2017 etc.) latest, which picks up on characters from her earlier book, A Certain Age (2016). Is Simon really dead? What drove Virginia and Simon apart? And what about Samuel, the perhaps more truthful--or brutal--twin brother to seductive Simon? Williams stirs a whirlpool of enigmas around Virginia while pulling in secondary characters like Simon's flapper sister, Clara, Virginia's angelic daughter, Evelyn, and Revenue Agent Marshall, who's constantly warning Virginia about dangers to herself and her child. But cool Virginia, who drove a Red Cross ambulance during World War I, has mettle enough for these challenges despite being variously deceived, attacked, and drugged. Suspended between parallel time frames--the beginning of Simon and Virginia's relationship in 1917 in the field hospitals of France and the "present" day, 1922, in Florida--this vertiginous tale is characterized by deceptions and secrets held by many characters, Virginia included. Williams' story, a rich brew of suspicion and intensity, also has a flavor of Daphne du Maurier, with its Cornish roots, dubious housekeeper, and embattled heroine. While galloping late revelations and events may leave the reader feeling whipsawed, there's no denying the author's full-blooded commitment to her intricate edifice. Even if the novel's strength ebbs in the final serpentine twists, Williams spins a good, spirited yarn.COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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After marrying the charming British army surgeon she meets on the battlefields of World War I, where she serves as an ambulance driver, New Yorker Virginia Fortescue finds her marriage undermined by her husband's secrets. Soon widowed and needing to settle the estate, she travels to Cocoa Beach, FL, which seems lovely only on the surface. With a 100,000-copy first printing.
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