Search
Log in
  • Home

  • Categories

  • Audiobooks

  • E-books

  • For kids

  • Top lists

  • Help

  • Download app

  • Use campaign code

  • Redeem gift card

  • Try free now
  • Log in
  • Language

    🇩🇰 Danmark

    • DK
    • EN

    🇧🇪 Belgique

    • FR
    • EN

    🇩🇪 Deutschland

    • DE
    • EN

    🇪🇸 España

    • ES
    • EN

    🇫🇷 France

    • FR
    • EN

    🇳🇱 Nederland

    • NL
    • EN

    🇳🇴 Norge

    • NO
    • EN

    🇦🇹 Österreich

    • AT
    • EN

    🇨🇭 Schweiz

    • DE
    • EN

    🇫🇮 Suomi

    • FI
    • EN

    🇸🇪 Sverige

    • SE
    • EN
  1. Books
  2. Crime
  3. Historical crime

Read and listen for free for 14 days!

Cancel anytime

Try free now
4.0(13)

The Lost Summers of Newport : A Novel

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

""An engrossing and sumptuous tale, this novel is a fantastic spring read."" — Good Morning America

From the New York Times bestselling team of Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White—a novel of money and secrets set among the famous summer mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, spanning over a century from the Gilded Age to the present day.

“Three stories elegantly intertwine in this clever and stylish tale of murder and family lies…This crackerjack novel offers three mysteries for the price of one.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer of Mansion Makeover, a popular reality show about restoring America’s most lavish historic houses. Andie has high hopes for her latest project: the once glorious but gently crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport, Rhode Island, summer resort of America’s gilded class—famous for the lavish “summer cottages” of Vanderbilts and Belmonts. But Andie runs into trouble: the reclusive heiress who still lives in the mansion, Lucia “Lucky” Sprague, will only allow the show to go forward on two conditions: One, nobody speaks to her. Two, nobody touches the mansion’s ruined boathouse.

1899: Ellen Daniels has been hired to give singing lessons to Miss Maybelle Sprague, a naive young Colorado mining heiress whose stepbrother John has poured their new money into buying a place among Newport’s elite. John is determined to see Maybelle married off to a fortune-hunting Italian prince, and Ellen is supposed to polish up the girl for her launch into society. But the deceptively demure Ellen has her own checkered past, and she’s hiding in plain sight at Sprague Hall.

1958: Lucia “Lucky” Sprague has always felt like an outsider at Sprague Hall. When she and her grandmother—the American-born Princess di Conti—fled Mussolini’s Italy, it seemed natural to go back to the imposing Newport house Nana owned but hadn’t seen since her marriage in 1899. Over the years, Lucky's lost her Italian accent and found a place for herself among the yachting set by marrying Stuyvesant Sprague, the alcoholic scion of her Sprague stepfamily. But one fateful night in the mansion’s old boathouse will uncover a devastating truth...and change everything she thought she knew about her past.

As the cameras roll on Mansion Makeover, the house begins to yield up the dark secrets the Spragues thought would stay hidden forever….


Authors:

  • Beatriz Williams
  • Lauren Willig
  • Karen White

Narrators:

  • Saskia Maarleveld
  • Brittany Pressley
  • Lisa Flanagan

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 13 h 9 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Crime
  • Historical crime

More by Beatriz Williams

Skip the list
  1. Glashavet

    Karen White, Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig

    audiobookbook
  2. Hver gang vi tog afsked

    Karen White, Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig

    audiobookbook
  3. Det glemte værelse

    Karen White, Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig

    audiobookbook
  4. The Author's Guide to Murder : A Novel

    Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White

    audiobook
  5. The Beach at Summerly : A Novel

    Beatriz Williams

    audiobook
  6. Our Woman in Moscow

    Beatriz Williams

    audiobook
  7. Our Woman in Moscow : A Novel

    Beatriz Williams

    audiobook
  8. All the Ways We Said Goodbye : A Novel of the Ritz Paris

    Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White

    audiobook
  9. The Wicked Redhead : A Wicked City Novel

    Beatriz Williams

    audiobook
  10. The Golden Hour

    Beatriz Williams

    audiobook
  11. The Golden Hour : A Novel

    Beatriz Williams

    audiobook
  12. The Summer Wives

    Beatriz Williams

    audiobook

Others have also read

Skip the list
  1. The Father She Went to Find

    Carter Wilson

    audiobook
  2. The Winner

    C.J. Parsons

    audiobook
  3. Bittersweet Herbs

    Marty Wingate

    audiobook
  4. The Long Way Back : A Novel

    Nicole Baart

    audiobookbook
  5. Have You Seen Her : A Novel

    Catherine McKenzie

    audiobookbook
  6. The Marlow Murder Club

    Robert Thorogood

    audiobook
  7. Little Monsters

    Adrienne Brodeur

    audiobookbook
  8. The Possibilities : A Novel

    Kaui Hart Hemmings

    audiobookbook
  9. Others Were Emeralds : A Novel

    Lang Leav

    audiobook
  10. The Beach at Summerly : A Novel

    Beatriz Williams

    audiobook
  11. Murder Most Owl

    Sarah Fox

    audiobook
  12. The Summer of Songbirds

    Kristy Woodson Harvey

    audiobookbook

  • 21 books

    Beatriz Williams

    A graduate of Stanford University with an MBA from Columbia, Beatriz Williams spent several years in New York and London hiding her early attempts at fiction, first on company laptops as a communications strategy consultant, and then as an at-home producer of small persons, before her career as a writer took off. She lives with her husband and four children near the Connecticut shore.

    Read more

  • 11 books

    Lauren Willig

    Lauren Willig is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. An alumna of Yale University, she has a graduate degree in history from Harvard and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She lives in New York City.

    Read more

  • 10 books

    Karen White

    Karen White is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of twenty-five novels, including Dreams of Falling and The Night the Lights Went Out. She has two grown children and currently lives near Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and two spoiled Havanese dogs.

    Read more

Help and contact


About us

  • Our story
  • Career
  • Press
  • Accessibility
  • Partner with us
  • Investor relations
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Explore

  • Categories
  • Audiobooks
  • E-books
  • Magazines
  • For kids
  • Top lists

Popular categories

  • Crime
  • Biographies and reportage
  • Fiction
  • Feel-good and romance
  • Personal development
  • Children's books
  • True stories
  • Sleep and relaxation

Nextory

Copyright © 2025 Nextory AB

Privacy Policy · Terms ·
Excellent4.3 out of 5