The White Rose

Passion,infidelity, social climbing, and one very special white rose weave a seductivenarrative in this intelligent and tender novel.At forty-eight, Marian Kahn, a professor of history atColumbia University, has reached a comfortable perch. Married, wealthy, and thefamed discoverer of eighteenth-century adventuress Lady Charlotte Wilcox, sheought to be content. Instead, she is horrified to find herself profoundly inlove with twenty-six-year-old Oliver, the son of her eldest friend. WhenMarian’s snobbish cousinBarton announces his engagement to Sophie, a graduatestudent in Marian’s department, Marian, Oliver, and Sophie find their liveswoefully entangled and their hearts turned in unfamiliar directions. All threeof them will learn that love may seldom be straightforward, but it’s always agift.From the West Village to the Upper East Side, from theHamptons to Millbrook, The White Rose isat once a nuanced and affectionate reimagining of Strauss’ beloved opera Der Rosenkavalier and a mesmerizing novel of our own time and place.