Newport, Rhode Island, August 1895: She may be a less
well-heeled relation, but as second cousin to millionaire
patriarch Cornelius Vanderbilt, twenty-one-year-old Emma
Cross is on the guest list for a grand ball at the Breakers,
the Vanderbilts’ summer home. She also has a job to
do—report on the event for the society page of the
Newport Observer. But Emma observes much more than glitz and
gaiety when she witnesses a murder. The victim is Cornelius
Vanderbilt’s financial secretary, who plunges off a
balcony faster than falling stock prices. Emma’s black
sheep brother Brady is found in Cornelius’s bedroom
passed out next to a bottle of bourbon and stolen plans for
a new railroad line. Brady has barely come to before the
police have arrested him for the murder. But Emma is sure
someone is trying to railroad her brother and resolves to
find the real killer at any cost…
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