From the writer of The Dollhouse as well as the Masterpiece comes the compelling national bestselling book about the thin lines between love and loss, success and ruin, passion and madness, all hidden behind the walls of The Dakota-New York City’s most well-known residence.

When a opportunity encounter with Theodore Camden, among the architects from the grand NY apartment house the Dakota, potential clients to employment offer for Sara Smythe, her world is abruptly awash in possibility-no mean approximately The Address: A Novel feat for the servant in 1884. The chance to move to America. The chance to be the female manager of the Dakota. And the opportunity to see more of Theo, who understands Sara like nobody else…and it is living in the Dakota along with his wife and three young children.

A hundred years later, Bailey Camden is usually desperate for fresh opportunities: Fresh away of rehab, the former interior designer is homeless, jobless, and penniless. Bailey’s grandfather was the ward of famed architect Theodore Camden, however Bailey won’t visit a dime of the Camden family’s significant estate; instead, her “cousin” Melinda-Camden’s biological great-granddaughter-will inherit almost anything. Therefore when Melinda gives to let Bailey oversee the renovation of her lavish Dakota house, Bailey jumps at the chance, despite her dislike of Melinda’s eyesight. The renovation will take away all of the character from the apartment Theodore Camden himself lived in…and died in, after suffering multiple stab wounds by a former Dakota worker who had previously spent seven weeks within an insane asylum-a madwoman named Sara Smythe.

A century aside, Sara and Bailey are both tempted by and struggle against the fantastic excess of their particular ages–for Sara, the opulence of a global ruled by the Astors and Vanderbilts; for Bailey, the nightlife’s free-flowing drinks and cocaine-and take refuge in the Upper Western Side’s gilded fortress. But a building with a history as rich, and often as tragic, as the Dakota’s can’t hold its secrets permanently, and what Bailey discovers inside could turn everything she believed she knew about Theodore Camden-and the woman who killed him-on its head.