#1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille delivers the long-awaited follow-up to his classic novel The Gold Coast. When John Sutters aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world eventually settling in London. Now ten years later he has come home to the Gold Coast that stretch of land on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America to attend the imminent funeral of an old family servant. Taking up temporary residence in the gatehouse of Stanhope Hall John finds himself living only a quarter of a mile from Susan who has also returned to Long Island. But Susan isnt the only person from Johns past who has reemerged: Though Frank Bellarosa infamous Mafia don and Susans ex-lover is long dead his son Anthony is alive and well and intent on two missions: Drawing John back into the violent world of the Bellarosa family and exacting revenge on his fathers murderer--Susan Sutter. At the same time John and Susans mutual attraction resurfaces and old passions begin to reignite and John finds himself pulled deeper into a familiar web of seduction and betrayal. In THE GATE HOUSE acclaimed author Nelson Demille brings us back to that fabled spot on the North Shore -- a place where past present and future collides with often unexpected results.
