The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft

<p><strong>Winner Midwest Fiction National Indie Excellence Awards</strong></p><p><strong>Finalist Historical Fiction National Indie Excellence Awards</strong></p><p><strong>Longlisted Best Indie Book 2023 <em>Shelf Unbound</em></strong></p><p><strong>Honorable Mention Historical Fiction The Eric Hoffer Book Award</strong></p><p><strong>Silver Medal Plains Fiction Independent Publisher Book Awards</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Beautifully written compulsively readable... So says Indie Reader of <em>The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft</em> - 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.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </strong></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p> </p><p>Inspired by a true story set in a tumultuous era too like our own <em>The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft</em> 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...</p>