Certain Age

<p>The bestselling author of <em>A Hundred Summers</em> brings the <em>Roaring Twenties</em> brilliantly to life in this enchanting and compulsively readable tale of intrigue romance and scandal in New York Society brimming with lush atmosphere striking characters and irresistible charm.</p><p>As the freedom of the Jazz Age transforms New York City the iridescent Mrs. Theresa Marshall of Fifth Avenue and Southampton Long Island has done the unthinkable: she's fallen in love with her young paramour Captain Octavian Rofrano a handsome aviator and hero of the Great War. An intense and deeply honorable man Octavian is devoted to the beautiful socialite of a certain age and wants to marry her. While times are changing and she does adore the Boy divorce for a woman of Theresa's wealth and social standing is out of the question and there is no need; she has an understanding with Sylvo her generous and well-respected philanderer husband.</p><p>But their relationship subtly shifts when her bachelor brother Ox decides to tie the knot with the sweet younger daughter of a newly wealthy inventor. Engaging a longstanding family tradition Theresa enlists the Boy to act as her brother's cavalier presenting the family's diamond rose ring to Ox's intended Miss Sophie Fortescue--and to check into the background of the little-known Fortescue family. When Octavian meets Sophie he falls under the spell of the pretty ingénue even as he uncovers a shocking family secret. As the love triangle of Theresa Octavian and Sophie progresses it transforms into a saga of divided loyalties dangerous revelations and surprising twists that will lead to a shocking transgression . . . and eventually force Theresa to make a bittersweet choice.</p><p>Full of the glamour wit and delicious twists that are the hallmarks of Beatriz Williams' fiction and alternating between Sophie's spirited voice and Theresa's vibrant timbre <em>A Certain Age</em> is a beguiling reinterpretation of Richard Strauss's comic opera <em>Der Rosenkavalier</em> set against the sweeping decadence of Gatsby's New York.</p>