Wicked City

<p><strong>From the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>A Certain Age</em> a deliciously spicy new Jazz Age adventure and the first book of a breathtaking new trilogy by bestselling author Beatriz Williams. Two generations of women are brought together inside a Greenwich Village apartment --a flapper hiding an extraordinary past and a modern-day Manattanite forced to start her life anew.</strong></p><p>When she discovers her banker husband has been harboring a secret life Ella Gilbert escapes her SoHo loft for a studio in Greenwich Village. Her charismatic musician neighbor Hector warns her to stay out of the basement after midnight when a symphony of mysterious noise strikes up--laughter clinking glasses jazz piano the occasional bloodcurdling scream--even though the space has been empty for decades. Back in the Roaring Twenties the basement was home to one of the city's most notorious speakeasies.</p><p>In 1924 Geneva Gin Kelly a quick-witted flapper from the hills of western Maryland is a regular at this Village hideaway. Caught up in a raid Gin lands in the office of Prohibition enforcement agent Oliver Anson who persuades her to help him catch her stepfather Duke Kelly one of the biggest bootleggers in Appalachia.</p><p>But Gin is nobody's fool. She strikes a risky bargain with the taciturn straight-arrow Revenue agent and their alliance rattles Manhattan society to its foundations exposing secrets that shock even this free-spirited redhead.</p><p>As Ella unravels the strange history of her new building--and the family thread that connects her to Geneva Kelly--she senses the Jazz Age spirit of her exuberant predecessor invading her own shy nature in ways that will transform her existence in the wicked city.</p>