Ab� is an exquisite storyteller....deeply moving. --Fiona Davis, New York.
Ab� is an exquisite storyteller....deeply moving.
But Madeleine\'s most important decision still lies ahead: whether to accept the role assigned to her or carve out her own remarkable path...
In the wake of the disaster, the press has elevated her to the status of virtuous, tragic heroine.
Four months later, at the Astors\' Fifth Avenue mansion, a widowed Madeleine gives birth to their son.
As Jack helps Madeleine into a lifeboat, he assures her that he\'ll see her soon in New York...
The swift, state-of-the-art RMS Titanic seems unsinkable.
When the ship hits an iceberg close to midnight on April 14th, there is no immediate panic.
The couple plans to return home in the spring of 1912, aboard an opulent new ocean liner.
Madeleine feels truly alive for the first time--and is happily pregnant.
On their extended honeymoon in Egypt, the newlyweds finally find a measure of peace away from photographers and journalists.
Despite their twenty-nine-year age difference and the scandal of Jack\'s recent divorce, Madeleine falls headlong into love--and becomes the press\'s favorite target.
Jack is dashing and industrious--a hero of the Spanish-American war, an inventor, and a canny businessman.
Astor, American royalty and New York\'s most formidable socialite.
Jack\'s mother was the Mrs.
Madeleine is beautiful, intelligent, and solidly upper-class, but the Astors are in a league apart.
Madeleine Talmage Force is just seventeen when she attracts the attention of John Jacob Jack Astor.
Perfect for fans of Fiona Davis and Melanie Benjamin.
From their scandalous courtship to their catastrophic honeymoon aboard the Titanic--a tragedy that made them the most famous couple of their time--their love story is brought to life in this sweeping work of Historical fiction by New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist Shana Ab�.
Madeleine Force was a beautiful teenaged debutante suddenly and unexpectedly thrust into fame simply for falling in love with a famous man nearly three decades her senior.
Jack Astor was American royalty, the richest man in the world, and Fifth Avenue scion of the Gilded Age. --Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue Inspired by the scandalous real-life love story between America\'s richest man and teenage beauty Madeleine Force -- and the aftermath of their tragic honeymoon aboard the Titanic.
Ab� is an exquisite storyteller....deeply moving
