The Address

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue comes the compelling national bestselling novel about the thin lines between love and loss,success and ruinpassion and madnessall hidden behind the walls of The DakotaΓÇöNew York CityΓÇÖs most famous residence. When a chance encounter with Theodore Camdenone of the architects of the grand New York apartment house the Dakotaleads to a job offer for Sara Smytheher world is suddenly awash in possibilityΓÇöno mean feat for a servant in 1884. The opportunity to move to America. The opportunity to be the female manager of the Dakota. And the opportunity to see more of Theowho understands Sara like no one else…and is living in the Dakota with his wife and three young children. One hundred years laterBailey Camden is desperate for new opportunities: Fresh out of rehabthe former interior designer is homelessjoblessand penniless. Bailey’s grandfather was the ward of famed architect Theodore Camdenyet Bailey won’t see a dime of the Camden family’s substantial estate; insteadher ΓÇ£cousinΓÇ¥ MelindaΓÇöCamden’s biological great-granddaughterΓÇöwill inherit almost everything. So when Melinda offers to let Bailey oversee the renovation of her lavish Dakota apartmentBailey jumps at the chancedespite her dislike of Melinda’s vision. The renovation will take away all the character of the apartment Theodore Camden himself lived in…and died inafter suffering multiple stab wounds by a former Dakota employee who had previously spent seven months in an insane asylumΓÇöa madwoman named Sara Smythe. A century apartSara and Bailey are both tempted by and struggle against the golden excess of their respective ages–for Sarathe opulence of a world ruled by the Astors and Vanderbilts; for Baileythe nightlife’s free-flowing drinks and cocaineΓÇöand take refuge in the Upper West Side’s gilded fortress. But a building with a history as richand often as tragicas the Dakota’s can’t hold its secrets foreverand what Bailey discovers inside could turn everything she thought she knew about Theodore CamdenΓÇöand the woman who killed himΓÇöon its head.