The Wicked Widow: A Wicked City Novel (The Wicked City series, 3)

ISBN: 0063142449

Author: Williams, Beatriz

Condition: New

Gin Kelly, the wicked redhead, is back! Readers will delight in next installment of the Wicked City series by New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams.June 1925. Audacious Appalachian flapper Geneva Gin Kelly prepares to trade her high-flying ways for respectable marriage to Oliver Anson Marshall, a steadfast Prohibition agent who happens to hail from one of New Yorks most distinguished families. But just as wedding bells chime, the head of the notorious East Coast rum-running racket-and Ansons mortal enemy-turns up murdered at a society funeral, and their short-lived honeymoon bliss goes up in a spectacular blaze that sends Anson back undercover...and into the jaws of a trap from which not even Gin can rescue him. As violence explodes around her, Gin must summon all her considerable moxie to trace the tentacles of this sinister organization back to their shocking source, and face down a legendary American family at a rigged game it has no intention of losing.June 1998. When Ella Dommerichs ninetysomething society queen aunt Julie ropes her into digging up dirt on Senator (and Presidential candidate) Franklin Hardcastle in order to settle old family scores, she couldnt be less enthusiastic. Pregnant Ellas recently ditched her unfaithful husband and settled into cozy-if complicated-domesticity with her almost-too-good-to-be-true musician boyfriend, Hector. But then the Hardcastle secrets lead to a web of shady dealings Ellas uncovered in her job as a financial analyst, and the bodies start to tumble out of the venerable woodwork. With the help of her ex-husband and her mysterious connection to a certain redheaded flapper, Ella digs up more than mere dirtonly to discover herself standing alone between a legendarily ruthless family and the prize its sought for generations.What ugly secrets lurk in the opulent enclaves-and bank accounts--of Americas richest families? And can two determined women from two different generations thwart the murderous legacy of the demon liquor?