Overseas
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
...a heady blend of wit, charm, and romantic sizzle, all wrapped around a tantalizing mystery.' Anne Fortier, New York Times bestselling authorWhen twenty-something Wall Street analyst Kate Wilson attracts the notice of the legendary Julian Laurence at a business meeting, no one's more surprised than she. Julian's relentless energy and his extraordinary intellect electrify her, but she's baffled by his sudden interest. Why would this handsome British billionaire -- Manhattan's most eligible bachelor -- pursue a pretty but bookish young banker who hasn't had a boyfriend since college?The answer is beyond imagining . . . at least at first. Kate and Julian's story may have begun not in the moneyed world of twenty-first-century Manhattan but in France during World War I, when a mysterious American woman emerged from the shadows of the Western Front to save the life of Captain Julian Laurence Ashford, a celebrated war poet and infantry officer.Now, in modern-day New York, Kate and Julian must protect themselves from the secrets of the past, and trust in a true love that transcends time and space.'History meets romance meets suspense! Compelling, original and wildly romantic, Beatriz Williams' prose is stunning and the plot edge-of-your-seat gripping. Overseas is an absolute triumph - I loved every page.' Tilly Bagshawe, New York Times bestselling author
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Wall Street analyst Kate Wilson is good at her job, good looking, smart, and while she's somewhat out of place in her shark-filled firm, she's hardly the sort of woman the handsome billionaire investment genius Julian Laurence would be expected to take an interest in. Yet from the moment he sees her, he's smitten. Equal parts mystified and attracted, Kate's left to wonder why he backs off as suddenly as he appeared. Is he just some rich jerk blowing hot and cold? No, he's deeply in love and stuck with a secret: he's from a different time, and they've met before. Williams's pacing is excellent: as one question is answered, another arises, and soon, like Kate herself, readers are in too deep to argue. When the book starts moving between Wall Street (where Kate is accused of leaking information to Laurence's firm) and the WWI front (where Julian is an officer in the British Army), and the lovers face difficulties on all sides, we're happy to suspend disbelief. Some of the book's many plot threads get dropped, but it doesn't matter; at heart this is a delicious story about the ultimate romantic fantasy: love that not only triumphs over time and common sense, but, once Kate overcomes Julian's WWI-era ideas about honor, includes mind-blowing sex.
