The Last Train To Key West by Chanel Cleeton.
Synopsis
In 1935 three women are forever changed when one of the most powerful hurricanes in history barrels toward the Florida Keys in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's captivating new novel.
Everyone journeys to Key West searching for something. 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.
The Cuban Revolution of 1933 left Mirta Perez's family in a precarious position. After an arranged wedding in Havana, Mirta arrives in the Keys on her honeymoon. While she can't deny the growing attraction to the stranger she's married, her new husband's illicit business interests may threaten not only her relationship, but her life.
Elizabeth Preston's trip from New York to Key West is a chance to save her once-wealthy family from their troubles as a result of 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.
My Review
The Last Train To Key West is told in multiple perspectives and has a bit of everything I enjoy in a novel. There is historical elements, a mystery, and a bit of romance.
I loved how the story really comes full circle for the reader and everything ties together well. This novel is richly detailed with the history of the hurricane in the Florida Keys in September of 1935. There is also plenty of the Cuban culture that I have come to really enjoy in the books of the Perez family that I have read.
The characters are well developed and I feel like Chanel Cleeton writes a book that I can really fully immerse myself in and she really can transport the reader through the pages of her novels.
I look forward to reading the next two books.
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