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2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer of Mansion Makeover, a popular reality show about restoring Americas most lavish historic houses. Andie has high hopes for her latest project: the once glorious but gently crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport, Rhode Island, summer resort of Americas gilded classfamous for the lavish zsummer cottagesy of Vanderbilts and Belmonts. But Andie runs into trouble: the reclusive heiress who still lives in the mansion, Lucia zLuckyy Sprague, will only allow the show to go forward on two conditions: One, nobody speaks to her. Two, nobody touches the mansions ruined boathouse. 1899: Ellen Daniels has been hired to give singing lessons to Miss Maybelle Sprague, a naive young Colorado mining heiress whose stepbrother, John, has poured their new money into buying a place among Newports elite. John is determined to see Maybelle married off to a fortune-hunting Italian prince, and Ellen is supposed to polish up the girl for her launch into society. But the deceptively demure Ellen has her own checkered past, and shes hiding in plain sight at Sprague Hall. 1958: Lucia zLuckyy Sprague has always felt like an outsider at Sprague Hall. When she and her grandmotherthe American-born Princess di Contifled Mussolinis Italy, it seemed natural to go back to the imposing Newport house Nana owned but hadnt seen since her marriage in 1899. Over the years, Lucky's lost her Italian accent and found a place for herself among the yachting set by marrying Stuyvesant Sprague, the alcoholic scion of her Sprague stepfamily. But one fateful night in the mansions old boathouse will uncover a devastating truth... and change everything she thought she knew about her past. As the cameras roll on Mansion Makeover, the house begins to yield up the dark secrets the Spragues thought would stay hidden forever. |
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Family secrets -- Fiction.
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Rich people -- Fiction.
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Newport (R.I.) -- Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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Novels.
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| Add'l Names |
Willig, Lauren, author.
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White, Karen (Karen S.), author.
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| ISBN |
9780063040748
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0063040743
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