Diana Dempsey

Broschiertes Buch

The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft

Beschreibung

Winner, Midwest Fiction, National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist, Historical Fiction, National Indie Excellence Awards Longlisted, Best Indie Book 2023, Shelf Unbound Honorable Mention, Historical Fiction, The Eric Hoffer Book Award Silver Medal, Plains Fiction, Independent Publisher Book Awards "Beautifully written, compulsively readable... " So says Indie Reader of The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft - the riveting novel about a legendary woman in antebellum Missouri who allowed neither men nor society's conventions to keep her from cutting her own remarkable path. The year is 1844. On a May midnight, Eliza Haycraft flings herself into a canoe to escape a husband who beats her and a life that does the same. She is penniless and illiterate. Yet a decade later, sex and secrets will make her the wealthiest woman in St. Louis, a frontier boom town at the western edge of a restless nation. With only herself to rely on, Eliza becomes a prostitute and madam, then a property owner and puller of strings. She tangles with a vindictive rival and a governor who will become a Civil War turncoat. Scarred by experience, she finds true love but dares not admit it even to herself. And when civil war looms, Eliza faces a devastating choice: whether to risk her own life for the survival of everything-and everyone-she holds dear. Inspired by a true story, set in a tumultuous era too like our own, The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft is historical fiction at its sweeping best: with richly drawn characters, a shattering love story, and an extraordinary heroine you will remember long after the last page is turned...

Autor

Award-winning author Diana Dempsey traded in a career in TV news to write fiction. The first of her ten contemporary novels, Falling Star, was a finalist for a Romance Writers of America RITA award for Best First Book. The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft, her first historical novel, is a multiple award winner. A graduate of Harvard University, Diana was born in Buffalo, New York, enjoyed stints in Belgium, the U.K., and Japan, and now resides in California with her husband and a West Highland White Terrier, not necessarily in that order.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bramerton Press, A Diana Dempsey Imprint
• Seitenzahl: 532
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 663g
• ISBN-13: 9780990696476
• ISBN-10: 0990696472
• Artikelnr.: 68103684