Having grown up on the mean streets of nineteenth-century London, Caroline St. James is used to fighting to survive.
So when her beloved mother―abandoned and ignored by her wealthy family―suddenly dies, the scrappy twenty-two-year-old devises a plan to right this terrible wrong. With nothing to lose, she sails to New York to find the man who turned a cold shoulder to her mother’s suffering: Caroline’s grandfather. To settle the family score, Caroline infiltrates her grandfather’s privileged world, hoping to sabotage his business from the inside. But as she sets her plot in motion, she meets Jackson Montgomery, a virtuous man who is struggling to recover from a family scandal of his own. As their friendship grows, and Caroline begins to piece together the motives that led her family to turn its back, she is forced to make a decision: Should she risk everything in the name of justice? Or can she look toward the future and let love and forgiveness guide her instead?
Undeveloped plot and cardboard characters. This has to be one of the worse books I have read in a very, very long time. I would give it zero stars if I could. I only finished it because Amazon gave it to me free for a review.Â
JOURNEY’S END Another month, another Kindle First choice to make. I normally stay away from historical fiction, but this book looked to be the best choice- the descriptions of the others turned me off completely.Â
A Gilded Age Gem! Renee Ryan has crafted a beautifully written story that is both heartwarming and inspiring. Her heroine, Caroline St. James, is a strong woman determined to right a terrible wrong. She travels from England to America to seek justice. The Gilded Age in New York City comes alive in Ms. Ryan’s deft hands. I’ve been to Ellis Island and done tours of the tenements in the Bowery. I was transported back in time to those places as well as to the homes of New York’s privileged. Jackson Montgomery…