Megan Chance
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
Opera singer Sabine Conrad is the toast of nineteenth-century New York high society. A celebrated soprano with the voice of an angel, she is showered with adulation by her audiences and courted by wealthy patrons. But behind the scenes, her every move is controlled by a Svengali-like manager, Gideon Price. When her attempt to escape him goes tragically awry, she flees, leaving behind a grisly murder.
Three years later, as Marguerite Olson, she...
Three years later, as Marguerite Olson, she...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
Sometimes truth is the greatest illusion of all.
On a cold January morning in 1856, Evelyn Atherton’s husband is found murdered after attending an exclusive séance. Having “married up” into New York society, Evie herself is the immediate suspect. Ostracized and vulnerable, she knows that to clear her name she must retrace her husband’s last steps. And so, joining forces with her husband’s best friend–and...
On a cold January morning in 1856, Evelyn Atherton’s husband is found murdered after attending an exclusive séance. Having “married up” into New York society, Evie herself is the immediate suspect. Ostracized and vulnerable, she knows that to clear her name she must retrace her husband’s last steps. And so, joining forces with her husband’s best friend–and...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
When the great Seattle fire of 1889 leaves them with nothing to lose, two very different women discover a mutual passion for revenge.
Chicago socialite and art patron Geneva Langley has brought scandal to her family for the last time. Her latest and boldest act of immodesty is too much for her father to bear, and he banishes her to Seattle, along with her scheming, ambitious husband, Nathan. Seattle is a far cry from Chicago—the...
Chicago socialite and art patron Geneva Langley has brought scandal to her family for the last time. Her latest and boldest act of immodesty is too much for her father to bear, and he banishes her to Seattle, along with her scheming, ambitious husband, Nathan. Seattle is a far cry from Chicago—the...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing a scandal in New York to an expatriate community in Venice where they hope to secure a wealthy patron, artist Joseph Hannigan and his sister, Sophie, attract the attentions of a celebrated courtesan and a man who knows the courtesan's dangerous secret.
5) Bone River
Author
Publisher
Amazon Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In the mid-19th century, Leonie Russell works alongside her husband, Junius, an oysterman in the Washington Territory. At night she continues her father's lifelong obsession-- collecting artifacts and studying the native culture that once thrived in the area. On her 37th birthday, Leonie discovers a mummy protruding from a riverbank--a mummy that by all evidence shouldn't exist. As Leonie searches for clues to the mummy's origins, she begins to feel...
Language
English
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"Stories From Suffragette City is a collection of short stories from the leading voices in historical fiction that all take place on a single day. The day one million women marched for the right to vote in New York City in 1915. A day filled with a million different stories, and a million different voices longing to be heard. Taken together, these stories from writers at the top of their bestselling game become a chorus, stitching together a portrait...