City of Promise: A Novel of New York's Gilded Age

City of Promise: A Novel of New York's Gilded Age

Beverly Swerlingâ€™s epic saga continues as New York emerges from the Civil War into the Gilded Ageâ€”a city marked by soaring expansion and teeming with unbridled ambition and dazzling glamour. Joshua Turner returns home from the war with only one leg yet determined to make his fortune. He aspires to build the cityâ€™s first apartment houses for Everyman, a daring vision that will make him the cityâ€™s first real estate titan but attracts the attention of a shadowy figure from his past. Mollie Brannigan, raised by her Auntie Eileen in the toniest bordello in town, is resigned at age twenty-two to spinsterhood. Then Joshua finds her at Macyâ€™s, the cityâ€™s largest emporium, and takes her coaching in Central Park. In his love Mollie finds a world of possibilities, but a secret Eileen thought left behind in Ireland will force Mollie to employ all her wits to protect not just her chance at happiness but her life. Vividly imagined and awash in period detail, City of Promise delivers not only suspense and intrigue, daring plot twists and bitter rivalries, but also the captivating love story of two people struggling to forge their own destiny.
Country USA
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2011-08-09
Format Kindle eBook

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