The Secrets of Sloane House

<p><strong>Against the backdrop of the 1893 World's Fair a new kind of crime comes to Gilded Age Chicago . . . and a lonely young woman is always at risk.</strong></p><p>Back on the farm in Wisconsin Rosalind's plan had seemed logical: Move to Chicago. Get hired on at Sloane House one of the most gilded mansions of Chicago. Discover what transpired while her sister worked as a maid there--and follow the clues to why she disappeared.</p><p>Now as a live-in housemaid to the Sloanes Rosalind realizes her plan had been woefully simple-minded.</p><p>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.</p><p>Yet while Sloane House is daunting the streets of Chicago are downright dangerous. 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Gray writes with honesty tenderness and depth. Her characters are admirable richly layered and impossible to forget long after the story is done. --Jillian Hart</p><ul><li>Part of the Chicago World's Fair Mystery series: <ul><li>Book one: Secrets of Sloane House</li><li>Book two: Deception on Sable Hill</li><li>Book three: Whispers in the Reading Room</li></ul></li><li>Book length: approximately 95000 words</li><li>Includes discussion questions for book clubs</li></ul>