In London, Isabel Nelson, a young woman grateful to have escaped her blemished reputation in Oxford, has found employment at the British Admiralty in the mysterious Room 40. Undaunted, Sydney and Brooke board the Lusitania for the seven-day voyage with Edward, not knowing that disaster lies ahead. As international tempers flare, the German embassy releases a warning that any ships making the Atlantic crossing are at risk.
Sydney has other adventures in mind she is drawn to the burgeoning suffragette movement, which is a constant source of embarrassment to her proper sister. Brooke is engaged to marry impoverished aristocrat Edward Thorpe-Tracey, the future Lord Northbrook, in the wedding of the social calendar. “Readers cannot help but feel we too are aboard that doomed ship.” – Erik Larson, author of Dead WakeĪs the First World War rages in continental Europe, two New York heiresses, Sydney and Brooke Sinclair, are due to set sail for England.
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