St. Martin's Press
January 2013
On Sale: January 8, 2013
320 pages ISBN: 0312651325 EAN: 9780312651329 Kindle: B008E50MPQ Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
From The New York Times bestselling writing duo Janet
Evanovich and Dorien Kelly,
comes the story of a young woman’s search for true love.
Caroline Maxwell would like
nothing more than to join her brother, Eddie, and his
friend, Jack Culhane, on their
adventures. While Jack and Eddie are off seeing the world,
buying up businesses and
building wildly successful careers, Caroline's stuck at home
frightening off the men
her mother hopes will ask for her hand in marriage. When her
mother sets her sights
on the questionable Lord Bremerton as a possible suitor,
Caroline struggles with her
instincts and the true nature of her heart. She longs for
adventure, passion, love,
and most of all . . . Jack Culhane, an unconventional
Irish-American bachelor with
new money and no title. A completely unacceptable suitor in
the eyes of Caroline's
mother. But Caroline's dark hair, brilliant eyes and quick
wit have Jack
understanding just why it is people fall in love and get
married.Set in New York City
in 1894, The Husband List is an American gilded age romantic
mystery. It evokes
memories of the lavish lifestyles and social expectations of
the Vanderbilts and
Rockefellers—a time when new money from the Americas married
Old World social
prestige and privilege. Dresses by Worth, transcontinental
ocean voyages, lavish
parties, a little intrigue, and a lot of romance await in,
The Husband List.