Books like The Maze At Windemere

A reckless wager between a tennis pro with a fading career and a drunken party guest- the states are an antique motorcycle and a diamond necklace - launches an odyssey that braids together three centuries of aspiration and adversity, set against the storied seascape of Newport, Rhode Island. An urbane bachelor of the Gilded Age concocts a high-risk scheme to marry into a fortune; a writer soon to make his mark turns to his craft with harrowing social consequences; a British officer during the American Revolution carries on a courtship that leads to murder; and, in Newport's earliest days, a tragically orphaned Quaker girl images a way forward for herself and the slave girl she has inherited. Weaving these intersecting worlds into a brilliant tapestry, Gregory Blake Smith charts a voyage across the ages and into the maze of the human heart.