(BOOK$) The Secret Life of Violet Grant (The Sch

<b>New from the author of <i>A Hundred Summers</i>: a story of love and intrigue that travels from Kennedy-era Manhattan to World War I Europe…</b><br /><b>A People StyleWatch “Must Read Book”</b><br /><b>One of Reader’s Digest’s Top Summer Thrillers of the Year</b><br />Fresh from college, irrepressible Vivian Schuyler defies her wealthy Fifth Avenue family to work at cutthroat Metropolitan magazine. But this is 1964, and the editor dismisses her…until a parcel lands on Vivian’s Greenwich Village doorstep that starts a journey into the life of an aunt she never knew, who might give her just the story she’s been waiting for.<br />In 1912, Violet Schuyler Grant moved to Europe to study physics, and made a disastrous marriage to a philandering fellow scientist. As the continent edges closer to the brink of war, a charismatic British army captain enters her life, drawing her into an audacious gamble that could lead to happiness…or disaster.<br />Fifty years later, Violet’s ultimate fate r