An American beauty
Call Number
- FICTION ABE (CEN)
Publication Information
New York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., [2023]
Physical Description
374 pages ; 21 cm
Summary
"When a railroad baron falls for a uniform girl at a gambling parlor thirty years his junior, he moves her to New York posing as a well-heeled Southern widow where her shrewd investing instincts build her a fortune"--
1867, Richmond, Virginia. Arabella wears the same low-cut purple gown that is the uniform of all the girls who work at Worsham's gambling parlor, yet she is set apart by her unyielding grit, and a resolve to escape her background of struggle and poverty. Collis Huntington, railroad baron and self-made multimillionaire, is married and thirty years her senior, yet flirtation rapidly escalates into an affair. With Collis's help, Arabella eventually moves to New York, posing as a genteel, well-to-do Southern widow. Using Collis's seed money and her own shrewd investing instincts, she begins to amass a fortune. Collis marries Arabella after his wife's death, but she must earn her place in Society. There are some who suspect the scandalous truth, and will blackmail her for it. -- adapted from back cover
Notes
"A novel of the gilded age"--Cover
Subjects
- Businesspeople > Fiction.
- May-December romances > Fiction.
- Secrecy > Fiction.
- Upper class > Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.) > History > 19th century > Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.) > History > 20th century > Fiction.
- Huntington, Arabella Duval, 1850 or 1851-1924 > Fiction.
- Huntington, Collis Potter, 1821-1900 > Fiction.