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The Breakers
Violet Van Waters and her sister, Sadie, are stunned by the opulence of The Breakers, the Vanderbilt mansion in fashionable Newport where they’ve been invited for a two-week house party. The mansion is filled with wealthy young people, including Charlie Tremblay, who’s there to forget his troubles in a bottle of gin. Violet struggles to keep her wayward sister in line and escape reminders of their parents—difficult to do with three séances on the agenda.
Chapter One
The Breakers Newport, Rhode Island May 1916 Violet pushed back two layers of curtains to peer out the window. Streaks of sunlight filtered t…
Chapter One, part two
Violet sat on the bed, eyes closed. When had she become such a chicken? She’d been outgoing enough with school friends, both at Emma Willard…
Chapter One, part three
Silence at last. Charlie’s head was spinning, but whether it was from the crowd or the gin, he couldn’t tell. Nor did it matter since he was…
Chapter Two, part one
Sadie was asleep, head burrowed under her pillow, when Violet woke the next morning. Not wanting to wake her sister with the noise of doing…
Chapter Two, part two
“What do you suppose a medium does?” Violet asked Sadie as they strolled along the cliff walk shortly after luncheon. To their left, the sea…
Chapter Two, part three
Twelve years earlier New York City A boom—loud enough to rattle the windows—jolted nine-year-old Violet awake. She pulled her head under the…
Chapter Two, part four
When Violet hauled Sadie into the breakfast room at two o’clock, the rude and handsome young man was already seated at the table, back to th…