The fugitive colours nancy bilyeau5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() In this heady atmosphere, Zia begins to wonder if she too could rewrite her life’s rules. She must contend with a group of players determined to find wealth and power in New York on their own terms. A cousin with whom she has a special bond serves as a guide to the shadow realm of the Orchid Hour, a world filled with enticements Zia has shunned up to now. When the police investigation stalls, Zia decides to find her own answers. After a second tragedy strikes even closer to home, Zia learns that both crimes are connected to a new speakeasy in Greenwich Village called The Orchid Hour. But when a quiet poetry lover is murdered outside the library, the police investigation focuses on Zia. Having lost her husband to The Great War, she lives with her son and in-laws in Little Italy and works at the public library. Zia De Luca’s life is about to be shattered. Nancy Bilyeau, author of The Blue, returns with a tantalizing novel about one woman caught up in a secret nightclub that one can only reach through a certain florist on a cobblestone street. ![]()
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