SECRETS OF SLOANE HOUSE by Shelley Gray is the first
book
in the
Chicago World's Fair Mystery Series.
It's 1893 and the World's Fair is going on in Chicago.
Rosalind is on her
way to Chicago, leaving her family farm in Wisconsin. She
is leaving to
search for her sister, Miranda who has gone missing. She
was working as
a maid for the very wealthy Sloane family. Now Rosalind
must get hired by
the Sloanes so she can try and find out what happened to
her
sister.
SECRETS OF SLOANE HOUSE has very many secrets and they are
dark
and deep. Be prepared not to do anything else once you
start reading.
You are going to get instantly pulled in and Shelley Gray
is not
going to let you
go until the very last page!
While Rosalind is working at the Sloane House she senses
danger from
one of the family members but which one? Did one of them
have
something to do with Miranda's disappearance? Did
something
bad
happen to her sister in the house? She meets someone at
the
house who
wants to help her but she isn't sure why. She is afraid
to
say too much and
so far no one in the house knows she is Miranda's sister.
Reid Armstrong is a family friend of the Sloanes; mostly
to
Douglas Sloane,
heir to the Sloane family fortune. Veronica Sloane,
Douglas's sister, is
interested in a long term, serious relationship with the
handsome silver
magnate and takes pleasure agonizing anyone who stands in
her way;
even lowly housemaids. When Reid befriends Rosalind and
becomes
interested in her he promises to find out the truth about
her sister, neither
could
anticipate the dangerous consequences or the unfailing
devotion that
forces them to seek each other's assistance.
The mystery of SECRETS OF SLOANE HOUSE is going to keep
you
turning the pages, late into the night. The underlying
romance will have
you cheering for Rosalind. I felt as if I were right
there
at the World's Fair
with her, munching on the French Fries and pretzels! I was
instantly
invested in the love Rosalind has for her sister and how
she
won't let
anything stop her from finding it the truth of what
happened
to her. Miranda
isn't the type of girl to just runaway even though
everyone
thinks that is
what happened. Mystery, faith, love, hate, and suspense,
this awesome
page turner has it all!
The second book in the Chicago World's Fair Mystery
is called
Deception At
Sable Hill and is coming out in April 2015.
Against the backdrop of the 1893 World’s Fair, a young woman finds employment with an illustrious Chicago family—a family who may guard the secret of her sister’s disappearance. Sloane House is among the most gilded mansions of Gilded Age Chicago. Rosalind Perry, the new housemaid, pours the morning coffee before the hard gaze of her mistress. “It’s simple, Rosalind,” she says. “I am Veronica Sloane, heiress to one of the country’s greatest fortunes. You are simply one in a long line of unsuitable maids.” Back on the farm in Wisconsin, Rosalind’s plan had seemed logical: Move to Chicago. Get hired on at Sloane House. Discover what transpired while her sister worked as a maid there—and follow the clues to why she disappeared. Now, as a live-in housemaid to the Sloanes, Rosalind realizes her plan had been woefully simple-minded. 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. Yet, while Sloane House is daunting, the streets of Chicago are downright dangerous. The World’s Fair has brought a new kind of crime to the city . . . and a lonely young woman is always at risk. 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. 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.
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