Charlie Bright

The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series brings post-war California to life with an unforgettable heroine for our times in Charlie Bright.

San Francisco, 1947: Twenty-seven-year-old British war bride Charlotte “Charlie” Bright has been abandoned by her beloved American husband, Mike—and she is puzzled. Charlie's bewilderment deepens when dead-serious hoods arrive on her doorstep demanding to collect on Mike's debts, or else.

But Charlie, a WWII veteran of the women’s ...