The Pilot’s Daughter

The glitzy days of 1920s New York meet the devastation of those left behind in World War II in a new,delectable historical novel from USA Today bestselling author Meredith Jaeger. In the final months of World War IISan Francisco newspaper secretary Ellie Morgan should be planning her wedding and subsequent exit from the newsroom into domestic life. InsteadElliewho harbors dreams of having her own columnis using all the skills she’s learned as a would-be reporter to try to uncover any scrap of evidence that her missing pilot father is still alive. But when she discovers a stack of love letters from a woman who is not her mother in his possessionsher already fragile world goes into a tailspinand she vows to find out the truth about the father she lovesΓÇöand the woman who loved him back. When Ellie arrives on her aunt Iris’s doorstepclutching a stack of letters and uttering a name Iris hasn’t heard in decadesIris is terrified. She’s hidden her past as a Ziegfeld Follies showgirl from her familyand her experiences in New York City in the 1920s could reveal much more than the origin of her brother-in-law’s alleged affair. Iris’s heady days in the spotlight weren’t enough to outshine the darker underbelly of Jazz Age New Yorkand she’s spent the past twenty years believing that her actions in those days led to murder. Together the two women embark on a cross-country mission to find the truth in the City That Never Sleepsa journey that just might shatter everything they thought they knewΓÇönot only about the past but about their own futures. Inspired by a true Jazz Age murder cold case that captivated the nationand the fact that more than 72000 Americans still remain unaccounted for from World War IIThe Pilot’s Daughter is a page-turning exploration of the stories we tell ourselves and of how well we can truly know those we love.