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Join us as our Circle of Readers discuss The Cuban Heiress by Chanel Cleeton.
Circle of Readers will discuss THE CUBAN HEIRESS by Chanel Cleeton.
September 1934. The glamorous SS Morro Castle cruise ship is on its final, fateful trip between New York and Havana. Cubana Elena Reyes is boarding, anxious that her phony papers may not pass muster since she is officially dead. Faux heiress Catherine narrates her own boarding process as she is accompanied by her fiancé, Raymond, his daughter, and her nanny. Nothing is what it seems in Cleeton's latest gripping historical novel, following Our Last Days in Barcelona (2022). As she weaves together Elena and Catherine's stories, told in alternating chapters, she also brings to life their fascinating, volatile time. Handsome con men, clever thieves, desperate rebels, and our valiant heroines all convene on this elegant but doomed ocean liner. As the women walk a high wire, working to wrest justice from a society in which all the odds are stacked against them, they face a tragic fate in the fire and foam of the impending shipwreck. Cleeton includes vivid details about the mysterious final voyage of the Morro Castle and provides further reading about this historic disaster.
AGE GROUP: | Adults (19-99) |
TAGS: | Discussion Groups |
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