Library Journal Review

Three best-selling authors (White, Beatriz Williams, and Lauren Willig) join forces to tell the story of Olive, Lucy, and Kate, three women who, though generations apart, are connected by a secret room in an elegant Manhattan Gilded Age mansion. In 1892, Olive, the daughter of the architect who built the Pratt mansion, takes a job as a housemaid to understand and, perhaps, avenge her father's suicide. Lucy, secretary in a New York law firm, comes to the mansion under false pretenses in 1920, attempting to learn more about her mother. Kate is a young doctor working in the mansion when it was converted to a hospital during World War II. Narrators Morgan Hallett and Susan Bennett draw listeners in with their compelling portrayals of these strong, likable characters, but the alternating story lines do create a disconnect at times. -VERDICT The authors' legions of fans will likely delight in this romantic multigenerational historical novel. ["Engaging, complex characters and an intriguingly twisty plot of false leads will help readers justify a weekend spent reading, without interruption please!": LJ Xpress Review 1/8/16 starred review of the NAL hc.]-Beth Farrell, Cleveland State Univ. Law Lib. © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.