The release date for the English version of 'The Lost Summers of Newport' by
Beatriz Williams is May 2022. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White, the authors of the New York Times bestselling series, offer a story of money and secrets set amid the renowned summer houses of Newport, Rhode Island, spanning more than a century from the Gilded Age to the current day.
2019: Andie Figuero just got her ideal job as a producer of the hit reality series Mansion Makeover, which focuses on renovating the most opulent historic homes in America. With her most recent endeavor, Sprague Hall in Newport, Rhode Island, a summer retreat for America's affluent elite and home to the opulent "summer cottages" of the Vanderbilts and Belmonts, once magnificent but now collapsing, Andie has great expectations. But Andie finds himself in trouble: Lucia "Lucky" Sprague, the reclusive heiress who still resides in the estate, would only approve the show's continuation on two conditions: First, no one talks to her. Two, no one enters the dilapidated boathouse of the estate.
1899: Miss Maybelle Sprague, a young, naïve Colorado mining heiress whose stepbrother John has spent their newfound wealth on a place among Newport's elite, has been sent to Ellen Daniels to teach singing. Ellen's job is to prepare Maybelle for her social debut, while John is keen to see the girl married off to an Italian prince who is chasing riches. However, Ellen, who presents herself as modest, really has a troubled history and is hiding at Sprague Hall.
Lucia "Lucky" in 1958. At Sprague Hall, Sprague has always felt alienated. It seemed only fitting that she return to the beautiful Newport home her grandmother, the American-born Princess di Conti, had possessed but hadn't seen since their marriage in 1899, when they fled Mussolini's Italy. Over time, Lucky shed her Italian accent and made a name for herself among the yachting elite by being married to Stuyvesant Sprague, the stepfather of the Sprague family who was an alcoholic. However, a disastrous night spent in the ancient boathouse of the estate will reveal a startling fact that will alter all she believed to be true about her background.
The mansion starts to reveal the sinister secrets the Spragues believed would remain buried forever as the cameras start to film on Mansion Makeover.