From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three females across a century-two deep before, one in the present-to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania.

May 2013

Her finances are in dire straits and bestselling author Sarah Blake is desperate for a huge idea on her behalf next book. Desperate, she breaks the main one promise she designed to her Alzheimer’s-stricken mother and opens an old about The Glass Ocean: A Novel chest that belonged to her great-grandfather, who died when the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915. What she discovers there might change background. Sarah embarks on an ambitious journey to England to enlist the help of John Langford, a lately disgraced Person in Parliament whose family members archives might support the just key towards the long-ago catastrophe . .

April 1915

Southern belle Caroline Telfair Hochstetter’s marriage is within crisis. Her formerly attentive industrialist spouse, Gilbert, has become remote, pre-occupied with business . . . then one else that she can’t quite put a finger on. She’s wishing a trip to London in Lusitania’s lavish first-class accommodations will help them reconnect-but she can’t ignore the spark she seems for her previous friend, Robert Langford, who turns out to be on the same voyage. Sense restless and longing for a different existence, Caroline is determined to stop being truly a bystander, and consider charge of her very own life. . . .

Tessa Fairweather is journeying second-class over the Lusitania, returning home to Devon. Or at least, that’s her tale. Tessa has never left america and her British accent is a hasty fake. She’s actually Tennessee Schaff, the daughter of a roving con guy, and she can grab and forge just about anything. But she’s experienced enough. Her partner offers promised that if they can pull off this one last heist aboard the Lusitania, they’ll finally leave the overall game behind. Tess frantically wants to believe that, but Tess has the uneasy sense there’s something about this job that isn’t as it seems. . . .

As the Lusitania steams toward its fate, three women work against time for you to unravel a story that will change the course of their own lives . . . and background itself.