The Golden Hour: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

THE BRAND NEW York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives and A PARTICULAR Age creates a dazzling epic of Globe War II-era Nassau-a hotbed of spies, traitors, as well as the most infamous couple of this, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

The Bahamas, 1941. Newly-widowed Leonora “Lulu” Randolph will come in Nassau to investigate the Governor and his wife for a fresh York society magazine. After all, American readers come with an insatiable hunger for news from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, that attractive about The Golden Hour: A Novel couple whose romance nearly brought the United kingdom monarchy to its knees five years previous. What more interesting backdrop for his or her romance when compared to a wartime Caribbean heaven, a colonial playground for kingpins of ill-gotten empires?

Or so Lulu imagines. But mainly because she infiltrates the Duke and Duchess’s interpersonal circle, and the powerful cabal that handles the islands’ political and financial affairs, she uncovers proof that beneath the glister of Wallis and Edward’s relationship is situated an ugly-and also treasonous-reality. Actually, Windsor-era Nassau seethes with spies, economic swindles, and racial stress, and in the middle of everything stands Benedict Thorpe: a scientist of great appeal and murky nationwide loyalties. Inevitably, the willful and wounded Lulu falls in like.

Then Nassau’s wealthiest man is murdered in one of one of the most notorious cases from the century, and the resulting coverup reeks of royal privilege. Benedict Thorpe disappears with out a track, and Lulu embarks on the journey to London and beyond to unpick Thorpe’s challenging family history: a fateful love affair, a wartime tragedy, and a mother from whom all joy is stolen.

The stories of two unforgettable women thread together within this extraordinary epic of espionage, sacrifice, individual love, and human courage, set against a shocking true crime…as well as the rise and fall of a legendary royal couple.