The Last Train to Key West

Release on 2020-06-16 | by Chanel Cleeton

Author: Chanel Cleeton
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780451490896
Category: Fiction
Page: 320
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The Last Train to Key West

One of Bustle’s Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020 “The perfect riveting summer read!”—BookBub In 1935 three women are forever changed when one of the most powerful hurricanes in history barrels toward the Florida Keys. For the tourists traveling on Henry Flagler’s legendary Overseas Railroad, Labor Day weekend is an opportunity to forget the economic depression gripping the nation. But one person’s paradise can be another’s prison, and Key West-native Helen Berner yearns to escape. After the Cuban Revolution of 1933 leaves Mirta Perez’s family in a precarious position, she agrees to an arranged marriage with a notorious American. Following her wedding in Havana, Mirta arrives in the Keys on her honeymoon. While she can’t deny the growing attraction to her new husband, his illicit business interests may threaten not only her relationship, but her life. Elizabeth Preston's trip to Key West is a chance to save her once-wealthy family from their troubles after the Wall Street crash. Her quest takes her to the camps occupied by veterans of the Great War and pairs her with an unlikely ally on a treacherous hunt of his own. Over the course of the holiday weekend, the women’s paths cross unexpectedly, and the danger swirling around them is matched only by the terrifying force of the deadly storm threatening the Keys.

Language: en
Pages: 320

The Last Train to Key West

Authors: Chanel Cleeton

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-16 - Publisher: Penguin

Language: en
Pages: 288

Last Train to Paradise

Authors: Les Standiford

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-08-05 - Publisher: Crown

The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores. In 1904, the brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler, partner to

Language: en
Pages: 592

Florida Hurricane Disaster. Hearings on H.R. 9486 ... 1936

Authors: United States. Congress. House. Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 1936 - Publisher:

Books about Florida Hurricane Disaster. Hearings on H.R. 9486 ... 1936

Language: en
Pages: 368

When We Left Cuba

Authors: Chanel Cleeton

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-09 - Publisher: Penguin

Instant New York Times bestseller! In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her life—and heart—to take back her country in this exhilarating historical novel from the author of The Last Train to Key West and Next Year in Havana, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. Beautiful. Daring. Deadly.

Language: en
Pages: 440

Contemporary Authors New Revision Series

Authors: Thomson Gale

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-09 - Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning

A biographical and bibliographical guide to current writers in all fields including poetry, fiction and nonfiction, journalism, drama, television and movies. Information is provided by the authors themselves or drawn from published interviews, feature stories, book reviews and other materials provided by the authors/publishers.