N A L Trade
November 2014
On Sale: November 4, 2014
448 pages ISBN: 0451466713 EAN: 9780451466716 Kindle: B00INIQQ5O Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
In late-nineteenth-century Chicago, visionary retail
tycoon
Marshall Field made his fortune wooing women customers
with
his famous motto: “Give the lady what she wants.”
His
legendary charm also won the heart of socialite Delia
Spencer and led to an infamous love affair.
The night of the Great Fire, as
seventeen-year-old Delia watches the flames rise and
consume
what was the pioneer town of Chicago, she can’t imagine
how
much her life, her city, and her whole world are about to
change. Nor can she guess that the agent of that
change
will not simply be the fire, but more so the man she meets
that night.…
Leading the way in rebuilding
after
the fire, Marshall Field reopens his well-known dry goods
store and transforms it into something the world has never
seen before: a glamorous palace of a department
store. He and his powerhouse coterie—including Potter
Palmer and George Pullman—usher in the age of robber
barons,
the American royalty of their generation.
But behind the opulence, their private lives are riddled
with scandal and heartbreak. Delia and Marshall first turn
to each other out of loneliness, but as their love
deepens,
they will stand together despite disgrace and ostracism,
through an age of devastation and opportunity, when an
adolescent Chicago is transformed into the gleaming White
City of the Chicago’s World’s Fair of 1893.
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