THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An engrossing and sumptuous tale this novel is a fantastic
spring read. - Good Morning America From the New York Times bestselling team of Beatriz
Williams Lauren Willig and Karen White-a novel of money and secrets set among the famous
summer mansions of Newport Rhode Island spanning over a century from the Gilded Age to the
present day. Three stories elegantly intertwine in this clever and stylish tale of murder and
family lies...This crackerjack novel offers three mysteries for the price of one. -Publishers
Weekly (starred review) 2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer of
Mansion Makeover a popular reality show about restoring America's most lavish historic houses.
Andie has high hopes for her latest project: the once glorious but gently crumbling Sprague
Hall in Newport Rhode Island summer resort of America's gilded class-famous for the lavish
summer cottages of Vanderbilts and Belmonts. But Andie runs into trouble: the reclusive heiress
who still lives in the mansion Lucia Lucky Sprague will only allow the show to go forward on
two conditions: One nobody speaks to her. Two nobody touches the mansion's ruined boathouse.
1899: Ellen Daniels has been hired to give singing lessons to Miss Maybelle Sprague a naive
young Colorado mining heiress whose stepbrother John has poured their new money into buying a
place among Newport's elite. John is determined to see Maybelle married off to a
fortune-hunting Italian prince and Ellen is supposed to polish up the girl for her launch into
society. But the deceptively demure Ellen has her own checkered past and she's hiding in plain
sight at Sprague Hall. 1958: Lucia Lucky Sprague has always felt like an outsider at Sprague
Hall. When she and her grandmother-the American-born Princess di Conti-fled Mussolini's Italy
it seemed natural to go back to the imposing Newport house Nana owned but hadn't seen since her
marriage in 1899. Over the years Lucky's lost her Italian accent and found a place for herself
among the yachting set by marrying Stuyvesant Sprague the alcoholic scion of her Sprague
stepfamily. But one fateful night in the mansion's old boathouse will uncover a devastating
truth...and change everything she thought she knew about her past. As the cameras roll on
Mansion Makeover the house begins to yield up the dark secrets the Spragues thought would stay
hidden forever....
