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Shelley Gray is the author of The Heart of a Hero series. Her Amish novel (written as Shelley Shepard Gray), The Protector, recently made the New York Times best seller list. A native of Texas, she earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Colorado and taught school for ten years. She and her husband have two children and live in Southern Ohio. Visit her website at www.shelleyshepardgray.com Facebook: ShelleyShepardGray Twitter: @ShelleySGray
Secrets of Sloane House
by Shelley Gray
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ISBN-13:
9780310338536
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publication date: 07/08/2014
- Series: Chicago World's Fair Mystery Series , #1
- Sold by: Zondervan Publishing
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 352
- Sales rank: 354,035
- File size: 979 KB
- Age Range: 18Years
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Against the backdrop of the 1893 World’s Fair, a young woman finds employment with an illustrious Chicago family—a family who may guard the secret of her sister’s disappearance.
Sloane House is among the most gilded mansions of Gilded Age Chicago. Rosalind Perry, the new housemaid, pours the morning coffee before the hard gaze of her mistress.
“It’s simple, Rosalind,” she says. “I am Veronica Sloane, heiress to one of the country’s greatest fortunes. You are simply one in a long line of unsuitable maids.”
Back on the farm in Wisconsin, Rosalind’s plan had seemed logical: Move to Chicago. Get hired on at Sloane House. Discover what transpired while her sister worked as a maid there—and follow the clues to why she disappeared.
Now, as a live-in housemaid to the Sloanes, Rosalind realizes her plan had been woefully simple-minded.
She was ignorant of the hard, hidden life of a servant in a big, prominent house; of the divide between the Sloane family and the people who served them; and most of all, she had never imagined so many people could live in such proximity and keep such dark secrets.
Yet, while Sloane House is daunting, the streets of Chicago are downright dangerous. The World’s Fair has brought a new kind of crime to the city . . . and a lonely young woman is always at risk. But when Rosalind accepts the friendship of Reid Armstrong, the handsome young heir to a Chicago silver fortune, she becomes an accidental rival to Veronica Sloane.
As Rosalind continues to disguise her kinship to the missing maid—and struggles to appease her jealous mistress—she probes the dark secrets of Sloane House and comes ever closer to uncovering her sister’s mysterious fate. A fate that everyone in the house seems to know . . . but which no one dares to name.
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06/15/2014Before she disappeared, Rosalind Perry's sister had worked as a maid at Sloane House, a Gilded Age Chicago mansion. Spurred by her sister's ominous letters, the headstrong Rosalind travels from her Wisconsin farm to Chicago, but she is unprepared for city life, especially as the metropolis prepares for the 1893 World's Fair. The streets are not the only danger Rosalind faces. Her increasing involvement with the handsome Reid Armstrong also puts her in direct opposition to the lady of the house, socialite Veronica Sloane. VERDICT A relentlessly paced novel with strong secondary characters and a plotline evocative of Downton Abbey and Upstairs Downstairs, this chilling narrative with detailed background on turn-of-the-century life in the Windy City will keep readers engaged until the denouement. Fans of Erik Larsson's The Devil in the White City will be drawn to New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Gray's ("Heart of a Hero" series) thrilling trilogy opener.