Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter

Pub­bing in Octo­ber from Houghton Mif­flin Harcourt:

New York in 1947 glows with post-war ener­gy. Har­ry Copeland, an elite para­troop­er who fought behind ene­my lines in Europe, returns home to run the fam­i­ly busi­ness. In a sin­gle, mag­i­cal encounter on the Stat­en Island fer­ry, the young singer and heiress Cather­ine Thomas Hale falls for him in an instant, too late to pre­vent her engage­ment to a much old­er man. Har­ry and Cather­ine pur­sue one anoth­er in a romance played out in post­war Amer­i­ca’s Broad­way the­aters, Long Island man­sions, the offices of financiers, and the haunts of gang­sters. Cather­ine’s choice of Har­ry over her long-time fiancé endan­gers Harry’s liveli­hood and even­tu­al­ly threat­ens his life.