![]() When Ambrose returns from two years abroad bearing a stunning necklace bought in India as a gift for May, she’s already married Ethan, but her love for Ambrose has never dimmed. A glittering, Gatsby-esque second narrative set in the 1920s explores the love triangle between Nell’s grandmother, May, and two brothers, Ethan and Ambrose Quincy. ![]() Nell, a successful lawyer, plays defense with her overbearing family, who see her as an outsider, but she finds an ally in Loulou’s estate lawyer, the handsome Louis Morrell. ![]() Nell must fend off the Quincys, who have other plans for it. She’s been made executor of Loulou’s will, and Loulou has left her a necklace of questionable provenance that she soon learns is very special indeed. In 2009, Cornelia “Nell” Quincy Merrihew’s great-aunt Loulou, who raised Nell’s mother, has passed away, and Nell finds herself in the company of an eccentric gaggle of Quincys, old-money Ohioans that her mother mostly avoided. ![]()
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