by Marilyn Turk
2. Lexie struggles with when to believe a fear is valid and when it is a phobia because of her mother’s mental health problems. Do you ever have fears? Phobias? How do you handle them?
3. Do you think Russell did the right thing by going overseas with the USO? Why do you think he went? Have you ever known someone with a handicap that kept them from serving in the military? Did they want to?
4. Karl (Cal) thought he owed his allegiance to his ancestral country of Germany. But he grew up in the United States. What did he ultimately decide his allegiance was to?
5. Through their conversation, Lexie influenced Karl to evaluate his beliefs and change his mind about his mission. Have you ever had that effect on someone? How?
6. Nurse Nancy was young and afraid. She needed a strong person to help her, and Lexie became that person. Have you ever become stronger when someone else needed you?
7. Dr. Dimitri Kappas is a womanizer. Have you ever known anyone like him? Why are some women deceived by his type?
8. Dr. Kappas and Mark don’t like each other. Why do you think that is so?
9. Many people in the 1940s were institutionalized because their families didn’t want to be bothered by them. Do you believe that still happens today?
10. Lexie was upset because Karl was not who she thought he was. She felt deceived and betrayed. Have you ever misjudged someone and felt like a fool when you learned the truth about them? Do you think Karl was a nice person or not?
11. Were you aware of the real Nazi spies that landed on US shores? How does it make you feel to know how easily they landed on our shores undetected? Called Operation Pastorius, you might want to research it further.
12. Mack’s Diner was a popular place. Have you ever gone to a diner? What did it look like? What did they serve? Was it open 24/7?
Find out more about Lexie Smithfield and the
shadow that darkens her family’s lives in
Marilyn Turk’s previous book
The Gilded Curse
Silver Scroll Merit Award for Fiction
A simple task becomes a dangerous venture when Lexie Smithfield returns to the island paradise of her childhood . . .
Now that the Depression has ruined her finances, all Lexie wants to do is return to Jekyll Island and dispose of her family’s grand old cottage at the Millionaires’ Club resort. As the only living heir, the place that had once been a gilded get-away is now a place of painful memories and, according to her deceased mother, curses.
Lexie doesn’t believe in curses—or blessings, for that matter. But when she arrives on the island in January of 1942 she finds an unknown intruder in the family cottage. With German subs threatening U.S. ships along the coastline, Lexie realizes she is being stalked by a stranger. What does she have that anyone would want?
Russell Parker, a childhood friend, has become the superintendent of the Jekyll Island Inn and keeper of the club members’ secrets: including the secrets of Lexie’s own family. As Lexie and Russell seek to solve the mysterious happenings surrounding the cottage—and identify the phantom stranger—an unexpected romance blossoms.
But can they act in time? Or will Lexie succumb to the island’s deadly curse?
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