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April 14, 2016

Today's Featured Title and Contest April 14, 2016
 

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about in the months ahead. Read more about it, and enter our Spring Preview Contest by Friday, April 15th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of A CERTAIN AGE by Beatriz Williams, which releases on June 28th. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

Today's Featured Book and Contest: A CERTAIN AGE by Beatriz Williams
As the freedom of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent Mrs. Theresa Marshall of Fifth Avenue and Southampton, Long Island, has done the unthinkable: she’s fallen in love with her young paramour, Captain Octavian Rofrano, a handsome aviator and hero of the Great War. An intense and deeply honorable man, Octavian is devoted to the beautiful socialite of a certain age and wants to marry her. While times are changing and she does adore the Boy, divorce for a woman of Theresa’s wealth and social standing is out of the question, and there is no need; she has an understanding with Sylvo, her generous and well-respected philanderer husband.

But their relationship subtly shifts when her bachelor brother, Ox, decides to tie the knot with the sweet younger daughter of a newly wealthy inventor. Engaging a longstanding family tradition, Theresa enlists the Boy to act as her brother’s cavalier, presenting the family’s diamond rose ring to Ox’s intended, Miss Sophie Fortescue --- and to check into the background of the little-known Fortescue family. When Octavian meets Sophie, he falls under the spell of the pretty ingénue, even as he uncovers a shocking family secret. As the love triangle of Theresa, Octavian and Sophie progresses, it transforms into a saga of divided loyalties, dangerous revelations and surprising twists that will lead to a shocking transgression...and eventually force Theresa to make a bittersweet choice.

Full of the glamour, wit and delicious twists that are the hallmarks of Beatriz Williams’ fiction and alternating between Sophie’s spirited voice and Theresa’s vibrant timbre, A CERTAIN AGE is a beguiling reinterpretation of Richard Strauss’ comic opera Der Rosenkavalier, set against the sweeping decadence of Gatsby’s New York.

-Click here to read an excerpt.

-Click here to visit Beatriz Williams' official website.
-Connect with Beatriz Williams on Facebook and Twitter.
 
Click here to enter the contest by 11:59am ET on Friday, April 15th.

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