Beautiful illusion: Treasure Island, 1939: a novel

✍ Scribed by Christie Nelson

• Book ID: 100196753
• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Year: 2016;2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 358 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1631523996

✦ Synopsis

As the march of boots echoes from overseas, all nations that border the Pacific and beyond are invited to build pavilions on Treasure Island at the Golden Gate International Exposition, an event dedicated to the pursuit of world peace and brotherhood. Meanwhile, Lily Nordby, smart, strong-willed, and feisty, lands a job at the Examiner and is given a once-in-a-lifetime assignment covering the Exposition. There she meets Tokido Okamura, the host of the Japanese Pavilion--and despite being highly suspicious of his true purpose on the island, she's swept up in a whirlwind of powerful emotions that lead her into unknown territory.
Brilliant and enigmatic Woodrow Packard, a Mayan art scholar at the Expo, prefers remaining aloof and alone. But his infatuation and deepening relationship with Lily thrusts him into the limelight. He asks himself, could someone as smart and beautiful as she return the love of a man who is a dwarf?
In an attempt to prevent Lily from spiraling...