The Golden Hour

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Just like this book turns up with in plot "surprises" (usually about an "oops" in the past) about 5 or 6 times. The Duke of Windsor, having abdicated the English throne, was Nassau's governor from 1940 to 1945, and during these years, the city was rife with greed, racial tension, and murder.

For the most part though, the gravitas of the Wars are kept to the outside, Pearl Harbor is discussed but being in the Bahamas during the time and lack of Internet keeps the news to feeling surreal. A native of Seattle, she graduated from Stanford University and earned an MBA in finance from Columbia University. Luckily, he is paired with two friendly, enthusiastic students for a group project who end up pulling him along into their Ag-club. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). A marriage, a murder, and a disappearance sets Lulu’s story off in a new direction regarding secrets, government spies and a slight nod of deception.

And more than anything, Manuel shows that vulnerability doesn’t have to be scary and that there is hope and joy even in the darkest and most unsettling of times.

reacts to the sound of gunshots later in the book (video game; agriculture kid-camp shooting range) that REALLY should have been addressed via some counseling after the incident with the teacher. Plus, a historical fiction about The Duke and Duchess of Windsor sounded just the ticket for escapism. A main character of the book, Lulu, heads to the Bahamas in the early 1940s in the hopes of gaining traction with the royal couple to share gossip with her US magazine readers.His days are a lonely, latchkey monotony until he’s teamed with his classmates, Sebastian and Caysha, for a group project. This book is a fascinating look at that time in history and I enjoyed this insider’s peek into this world. As Manuel aides his new friends in their preparations for the local county fair, he learns to open up, confronts his deepest fears, and even finds first love. The other woman we follow is Lulu in 1941 just as she is arriving in the Bahamas to cover gossip about the scandalous Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Edward and Wallis Simpson. There she gets caught up in possible treasonous acts and meets Benedict Thorpe, a man she thinks is more than he is letting on.

Final Thought: The Golden Hour was giving me pretty major The Clockmaker's Daughter vibes, just with fewer characters, and that is something I loved. This is an important idea to address, as it examines the difficulties imposed upon working-class people that are additional barriers towards mental health, recovery and support. Too soon, it seems that their only chance of saving Nina from being lost in history is to get themselves sentenced to the guillotine. In the middle of all this, Lulu might have some romantic feelings towards the mysterious Benedict Thorpe.The Golden Hour is the first book I’ve read that’s written just by Beatriz Williams although I’ve read her books co-authored with Karen White and Lauren Willig and loved them, which is one of the reasons I really wanted to read this one. Clever and observant she learns who are the players in Nassau from the rich and infamous from the watering holes, the Windsor's functions, and to the Red Cross events.