The Girl from the Grand Hotel - Camille Aubray

Summer 1939. The glittering Cote d''Azur is having a particularly brilliant season, as the world''s wealthiest vacationers collide with Hollywood''s illustrious moviestars for the first-ever film festival on the French Riviera.Into this hothouse playground comes an American named Annabel Faucon. Having left a dead-end job and a broken heart back in New York, she''s escaped to a summer stint at the fabulous Grand Hotel, where heruncle is the manager. But when a major movie studio brings its Jock of stars to stay at the hotel, Annabel is handpicked to ''keep an eye on'' two of the mysterious arrivals: a screenwriter who''s been ''in his cups'' and a renegade actor who keeps luring the studio''s female star into his independent productions.The arrival of Nazi guests only intensifies the situation. Suddenly everyone is watching everybody else during this feverish last summer before the outbreak of World War II. Faced with international spies who will stop atnothing to get what they want, Annabel Inds herself embroiled in murder, intrigue, and a race against the clock to disrupt a secret Nazi communications system. Inspired by true events and the histories of three great hotels on the Cote d''Azur - with appearances by such real-life luminaries as Marlene Dietrich, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Cagney, and Mae West - The Girl fromthe Grand Hotel is a brilliant page-turner that is not to bemissed.
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