The author of The Paris Model captures the glamour style excitement and romance of a bygone
era in this sumptuous novel-set in the Sydney and London of the 1960s-about an up-and-coming
young Australian reporter with a deadly secret.Breaking into the newspaper business in 1960s
Sydney-a competitive world dominated by hard-edged men-isn't easy for a woman. But Blaise Hill
is far from ordinary. The only female in The Clarion's newsroom her long-held dream of being a
reporter has come true. Blaise isn't chasing stories just to make a name for herself she's
helping support her family and her beloved sister Ivy whose life has been transformed by
polio.But the ambitious young journalist's confidence is shaken when she secretly witnesses the
murder of a top crime boss-a death that rocks the Sydney underworld. One of the few people who
knows what really happened-and what Blaise knows-is the handsome enigmatic Adam Rule who
helps cover up the murder. When she gets a plum assignment-moving to England to cover the
British royal family-Blaise hopes to put it all behind her.Carving her own path among the
scandal and intrigue of the Swinging Sixties in London life is just about perfect-until the
night she attends Queen Elizabeth's gala in honor of the upcoming nuptials of Princess Margaret
and Antony Armstrong-Jones. Among the exclusive crowd is the last man she ever wanted to
see-Adam Rule.Is Blaise's dark secret coming back to hurt her-or is this the beginning of
something far more dangerous?In this mesmerizing novel Alexandra Joel brings to life the
thrilling colorful world of 1960s Sydney and London when fashion music society and even
the royal family rode the waves of change-and a spirited ambitious heroine dared to make her
way in a man's world.
