Tam May
ASIN: B07RLVX7NW
Publisher: Dreambook Press
Pages: 212
Getting rid of a family specter means walking into other people’s dark rooms…San Francisco, 1892: Vivian Alderdice is not your typical Gilded Age debutante. She prefers reading books to flirting and long walks in Golden Gate Park to ballroom dancing. But what’s a deb to do when she has social obligations and expectations to fulfill?Then, in the midst of her debutante life, her grandmother dies. The future Vivian thought was so clear is now clouded with confusion and uncertainty.To make matters worse, a woman shows up at her grandmother’s funeral claiming to be an old friend from Penelope’s younger days. The young woman she knew was not Penelope Alderdice, Nob Hill socialite and wife to one of the city’s biggest shipping tycoons. Penelope was Grace Carlyle, an artist in search of adventure in a small coastal town named Waxwood.Is the intruder a crank or, as Vivian’s mother claims ...