What a wonderful story! Thanks to @camilledimaio__author and @lakeunionauthors @netgalley and @getredpr for the early read! I love camille and all her books!

Historical fiction is one of my favorite genres. I love reading about places i want to go and about people i want to learn more about. I also love reading novels with minor characters that are well known and an outside story that carries the novel on its own but adds to the historical portion. This novel checked all the boxes! THE BEAUTIFUL STRANGERS centers on The Hotel Del Coranado, which was where the Wizard of Oz was written and Marilyn Monroe played and worked. (I am so intrigued by this beautiful location and wouls like to go there someday. ) the main character is Kate Morgan in two forms: one- a spirit that checked in during the 1880s and died in the hotel. Second- a 20something spirited girl who came to California with a few dollars, a dream of working in the movies and a message from her ailing Grandfather - follow your heart, find the beautiful stranger and save her.
I loved both stories and the strong voices of both Kates. I loved the supporting characters and will be haunted by Kate Morgan and this story for a long time!

Cant wait to share this magical story with others when it hits shelves March 5!

For fans of: Kate Morton, Fiona Davis, Adriana Trigiani.

Dream cast:

Kate Morgan (ghost) Reese Witherspoon (as a brunette)

Kate Morgan (girl) Holland Roden

Sean ODonnell Eddie Redmayne

#historicalfictionnovel #hoteldelcoronado #hollywood #starlets #comingsoon‼️

This is my second book by this author and like the other one it quickly pulls you in and keeps you there! Her descriptions make you feel like you’re in the Coronado and on the beach. The duo time lines were easy to follow, one story so achingly sad. Love historical fiction and love her stories!!
Thank you for the early read!!

THE BEAUTIFUL STRANGERS by Camille Di Maio is a beautifully-written and magical story of love and family that kept me engaged from beginning to end. A captivating work of historical fiction, it is set in the late 1950s in and around the illustrious Hotel del Coronado, a landmark beachfront property just over the bridge from San Diego, California. Kate Morgan, a young woman trapped in the drudgery of working in her family’s restaurant in San Francisco, longs to escape to a different kind of life than generations of her family have ever known. She unexpectedly gets her chance when her ailing grandfather makes a desperate plea that she go to Coronado and find “the beautiful stranger”. When Kate arrives at the Hotel del Coronado, she is offered a dream job helping on the movie set of Some Like It Hot. Surrounded by famous actors and a hotel manager she can’t get out of her mind, Kate searches for clues about “the beautiful stranger”, who she soon learns may be connected to her own life in ways she could never have imagined. I truly enjoyed this heartwarming story. It had the perfect blend of history, mystery and romance and I highly recommend it! Thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the chance to read an early copy.

Another wonderful novel by Camille di Maio. Two women fifty years apart whose stories connect.the gorgeous location the luxurious Hotel del Coronado. Drew me right in took me out of my world into this delicious novel highly recommend this book and all the authors books, #netgalley #thebeautifulstrabgers #lakeunionpublishing,

Well written and very entertaining,like the way the author includes flashback from the past to the present entwining the two women each with a different purpose in life.
Good description,and captures the era of the times,setting the scene for the plot if the story.
Well recommended.

It’s 1958 and Kate Morgan wants out of her stultifying life in San Francisco and her escape comes in the form of a plea from her grandfather. Sent to the glamorous and stories Hotel del Coronado, Kate is tasked with finding the “beautiful stranger” for her grandfather. When Kate is offered a job at the hotel, famous for its role in the Marilyn Monroe movie Some Like it Hot, she’s thrilled. But the glamorous hotel has plenty of tragic secrets, including the death of a guest sixty years before. A guest that is said to have never checked out. This is such a fun story, capturing the elegance, romance and tragedy of the Del and incorporating its most famous haunting