The Glass Ocean: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

From the brand new York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical secret, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century-two deep in the past, one in the present-to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania.

May 2013

Her finances are in dire straits and bestselling author Sarah Blake is desperate for a huge idea on her behalf next book. Desperate, she breaks the main one promise she designed to her Alzheimer’s-stricken mom and opens a vintage about The Glass Ocean: A Novel upper body that belonged to her great-grandfather, who died when the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915. What she discovers there could change background. Sarah embarks on an ambitious trip to Britain to enlist the help of John Langford, a lately disgraced Member of Parliament whose family members archives might support the only key towards the long-ago catastrophe . .

April 1915

Southern belle Caroline Telfair Hochstetter’s marriage is within crisis. Her previously attentive industrialist spouse, Gilbert, has become remote, pre-occupied with business . . . and something else that she can’t quite place a finger on. She’s expecting a trip to London in Lusitania’s lavish first-class accommodations will help them reconnect-but she can’t disregard the spark she seems for her previous friend, Robert Langford, who turns out to be on a single voyage. Sense restless and desiring a different existence, Caroline is set to stop being truly a bystander, and consider charge of her personal life. . . .

Tessa Fairweather is traveling second-class for the Lusitania, returning home to Devon. Or at least, that’s her story. Tessa has never left america and her British accent is normally a hasty artificial. She’s really Tennessee Schaff, the child of the roving con man, and she can steal and forge just about anything. But she’s experienced enough. Her partner provides promised that if they can accomplish that one last heist aboard the Lusitania, they’ll finally leave the game behind. Tess frantically wants to think that, but Tess gets the uneasy sense there’s something concerning this job that isn’t as it appears. . . .

As the Lusitania steams toward its fate, three females work against time to unravel a plot that will change the span of their own lives . . . and history itself.