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Ariel Lawhon has real vision and the writing chops to back it up. She weaves the voices and lives of the Hindenburg's doomed--and surviving--passengers together in intricate fashion, linking them at startling intersections that bind them into a single, riveting tale. It's a fascinating blend of love and murder, big dreams and betrayal, history and pure imagination--I could not put it down. -- Sara Gruen, New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants and At the Water's Edge Flight of Dreams enthralls, taking the reader on the doomed last flight of the Hindenburg with a story so vivid, it is impossible to pull away. Mystery, romance it is all here, told in a mesmerizing tale. -- Kate Alcott, New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmaker In Flight of Dreams, Ariel Lawhon masterfullyre-imagines the infamous Hindenburg tragedy in uniquely human terms, and the result isa spectacular page-turnerof class and distinction.Intricately plotted and deftly characterized, this beautifully written novelis wonderfully satisfying - historical fiction at its best. -- Alex George, author of A Good American It's a sign of an extremely talented writer who can take a story that's been told before and tell it in a completely new imaginative way that is so compelling and exciting. -- Charles Belfoure, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Architect and House of Thieves A magnificent, tour-de-force story, FLIGHT OF DREAMS will break your heart and satisfy every conspiracy theorist who s wondered what really happened to the Hindenburg. Simply spectacular I've never read anything like it. Lawhon has written the book of the year. She s a writer to watch now, and for many years to come. -- J.T. Ellison, New York Times bestselling author of What Lies Behind From the Hardcover edition.

Ariel Lawhon has real vision and the writing chops to back it up. She weaves the voices and lives of the Hindenburg's doomed--and surviving--passengers together in intricate fashion, linking them at startling intersections that bind them into a single, riveting tale. It's a fascinating blend of love and murder, big dreams and betrayal, history and pure imagination--I could not put it down. -- Sara Gruen, New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants and At the Water's Edge Flight of Dreams enthralls, taking the reader on the doomed last flight of the Hindenburg with a story so vivid, it is impossible to pull away. Mystery, romance it is all here, told in a mesmerizing tale. -- Kate Alcott, New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmaker It's a sign of an extremely talented writer who can take a story that's been told before and tell it in a completely new imaginative way that is so compelling and exciting. -- Charles Belfoure, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Architect and House of Thieves A magnificent, tour-de-force story, FLIGHT OF DREAMS will break your heart and satisfy every conspiracy theorist who s wondered what really happened to the Hindenburg. Simply spectacular I've never read anything like it. Lawhon has written the book of the year. She s a writer to watch now, and for many years to come. -- J.T. Ellison, New York Times bestselling author of What Lies Behind

The novel beautifully exploits the unique, excruciating kind of suspense in which the poor horrified reader knows from the start exactly what s going to happen. Well, maybe not exactly .Under Lawhon s revolving spotlight, we are introduced to a carousel of suspicious characters so as the zeppelin cruises serenely through the clouds the earthbound reader ricochets from distrust to uncertainty to outright foreboding. At every page a guilty secret bobs up; at every page Lawhon keeps us guessing. Who will bring down the Hindenburg? And how? -- New York Times Book Review Ariel Lawhon has real vision and the writing chops to back it up. She weaves the voices and lives of the Hindenburg's doomed--and surviving--passengers together in intricate fashion, linking them at startling intersections that bind them into a single, riveting tale.It's a fascinating blend of love and murder, big dreams and betrayal, history and pure imagination--I could not put it down. -- Sara Gruen, New York Times bestselling author of Water for Elephants and At the Water's Edge Flight of Dreams enthralls, taking the reader on the doomed last flight of the Hindenburg with a story so vivid, it is impossible to pull away. Mystery, romance it is all here, told in a mesmerizing tale. -- Kate Alcott, New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmaker In Flight of Dreams, Ariel Lawhon masterfullyre-imagines the infamous Hindenburg tragedy in uniquely human terms, and the result isa spectacular page-turnerof class and distinction.Intricately plotted and deftly characterized, this beautifully written novelis wonderfully satisfying - historical fiction at its best. -- Alex George, author of A Good American It's a sign ofan extremely talented writerwho can take a story that's been told before and tell it in a completely new imaginative way that isso compelling and exciting. -- Charles Belfoure, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Architect and House of Thieves Amagnificent, tour-de-force story, FLIGHT OF DREAMS will break your heart and satisfy every conspiracy theoristwho s wondered what really happened to the Hindenburg.Simply spectacular I've never read anything like it. Lawhon has written the book of the year.She s a writer to watch now, and for many years to come. -- J.T. Ellison, New York Times bestselling author of What Lies Behind For her second outing, Lawhononce again reimagines a front-page news event, filling in the entertaining backstory with passion, secrets, and nail-biting suspense, this time taking on the disastrous crash of the Hindenburg in 1937...Lawhon threads many stories together, connecting passengers and crew and bringing behind-the-scenes depth and humanity to a great 20th-century tragedy even though we all know the Hindenburg s fate. -- Publishers Weekly An Agatha Christie style page-turner...Building on a dense scaffolding of biographical and historical fact, Lawhon invents personalities and relationships for key passengers, chooses from the extant theories about what caused the fire, and spins it all into a web of airborne intrigue...As the disaster inches closer with every chapter each begins with a countdown in days, hours, and minutes Lawhon evokes the airborne luxury of the ship the meals, the cocktails, the smoking room, and the service in such detail that you end up feeling a little sad that the stately flight of the Hindenberg marked the end of passenger travel by airship forever.A clever, dramatic presentation of a tragic historical event. Suspenseful and fun. -- Kirkus Reviews From the Hardcover edition.

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Ariel Lawhon is the author of The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress and cofounder of the popular Web site SheReads.org. She lives in the rolling hills outside Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband, four sons, and black Lab--who is, thankfully, a girl.

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