Gramercy Park: A Novel of New York's Gilded Age

New York City 1894. To Gramercy Park bordered by elegant town houses cloistered behind its high iron fence comes Mario Alfieri a celebrated tenor and the toast of Europe. Poised for his premier at the Metropolitan Opera the summit of society Alfieri needs a refuge from the clamor of New Yorks elite . . . and from the eager women who rule it. He finds it he thinks at Gramercy Park in the elegant mansion of the recently deceased Henry Ogden Slade. The house is available but not quite empty. Clara Adler Slades former ward lives there still friendless and alone. Who is this bewitching young woman? Why did Slade take her into his home only to leave her penniless at his death? And what tragedies and terrors have left Clara little more than a pale and frightened ghost haunting the deserted mansion? Mystified then enchanted Alfieri is soon involved in an intrigue that spans two decades and pits him against a vicious enemy who swears to destroy both him and the woman he loves . . . and whose weapons are scandal murder and the revelations of Claras past...