The Macqueripe Beach Club — Cecily Ann Mitchell

*She sacrificed true love to save her country*Registered Nurse Jacqueline Dorant never knew her great-grandmother, Lady Emalay Samuels, the formidable doyenne of Trinidadian society in the 1940s. But when her grandmother Cora dies in 1981, Jacqueline uncovers a family secret that turns her world upside down.Struggling to make sense of the legacy left to her, Jacqueline must navigate a web of history, betrayal, and long-buried truths.Aubrey Roche, a successful attorney who has spent his life holding his family together, finds his orderly world upended when fate places Jacqueline in his path. Compelled to help her, he becomes her guide through the mystery surrounding her inheritance of the Macqueripe Beach Club—and the pivotal role her great-grandmother played in safeguarding Trinidad during the American military occupation of Chaguaramas in World War II.As Jacqueline and Aubrey untangle past and present, they discover that some secrets are more dangerous than others—and that love can bloom in the shadow of history.