The Glass Ocean

Beatriz Williams and Others
    • 4.4 • 356 Ratings
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Publisher Description

From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century—two deep in the past, one in the present—to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania.

May 2013
Her finances are in dire straits and bestselling author Sarah Blake is struggling to find a big idea for her next book. Desperate, she breaks the one promise she made to her Alzheimer’s-stricken mother and opens an old chest that belonged to her great-grandfather, who died when the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915. What she discovers there could change history. Sarah embarks on an ambitious journey to England to enlist the help of John Langford, a recently disgraced Member of Parliament whose family archives might contain the only key to the long-ago catastrophe. . . .

April 1915
Southern belle Caroline Telfair Hochstetter’s marriage is in crisis. Her formerly attentive industrialist husband, Gilbert, has become remote, pre-occupied with business . . . and something else that she can’t quite put a finger on. She’s hoping a trip to London in Lusitania’s lavish first-class accommodations will help them reconnect—but she can’t ignore the spark she feels for her old friend, Robert Langford, who turns out to be on the same voyage. Feeling restless and longing for a different existence, Caroline is determined to stop being a bystander, and take charge of her own life. . . .

Tessa Fairweather is traveling second-class on the Lusitania, returning home to Devon. Or at least, that’s her story. Tessa has never left the United States and her English accent is a hasty fake. She’s really Tennessee Schaff, the daughter of a roving con man, and she can steal and forge just about anything. But she’s had enough. Her partner has promised that if they can pull off this one last heist aboard the Lusitania, they’ll finally leave the game behind. Tess desperately wants to believe that, but Tess has the uneasy feeling there’s something about this job that isn’t as it seems. . . .

As the Lusitania steams toward its fate, three women work against time to unravel a plot that will change the course of their own lives . . . and history itself.

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
RELEASED
2018
September 4
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
416
Pages
PUBLISHER
William Morrow
SELLER
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
SIZE
2.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Marge_Roberts ,

Amazing!

What a fantastic blend of authors who flawlessly wrote an historical fiction book surrounding the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. With points of views of Tess and Caroline starting a week before that fatal day, and with Sarah starting in 2013, I was entranced by everything. Bravo! I look forward to reading more by these three authors individually and together. I wonder who wrote which character?

MygiftsA&L ,

Very slow..

I didn’t love this book. I was hoping for an epic story, with great characters, but unfortunately that didn’t happen. The characters were all self-serving and non-likable. I would not recommend this book to anybody!

No No Nannette ,

The Glass Ocean

I enjoyed this book more than “The Forgotten Room.” I finally gave up trying to spot the different authors, they blended nicely with each other.

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