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The Woman in the Photo
Mary Hogan
William Morrow
June 2016
On Sale: June 14, 2016
Featuring: Elizabeth Haberlin
432 pages
ISBN: 006238693X
EAN: 9780062386939
Kindle: B015MOCRWC
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Historical | Women's Fiction Historical
In this compulsively-readable historical novel, from the
author of the critically-acclaimed Two Sisters,
comes the story of two young women—one in America’s Gilded
Age, one in scrappy modern-day California—whose lives are
linked by a single tragic afternoon in
history. 1888: Elizabeth Haberlin, of
the Pittsburgh Haberlins, spends every summer with her
family on a beautiful lake in an exclusive club. Nestled in
the Allegheny Mountains above the working class community of
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the private retreat is patronized
by society’s elite. Elizabeth summers with Carnegies,
Mellons, and Fricks, following the rigid etiquette of her
class. But Elizabeth is blessed (cursed) with a mind of her
own. Case in point: her friendship with Eugene Eggar, a
Johnstown steel mill worker. And when Elizabeth discovers
that the club’s poorly maintained dam is about to burst and
send 20 million tons of water careening down the
mountain, she risks all to warn Eugene and the townspeople
in the lake’s deadly shadow. Present day:
On her eighteenth birthday, genetic information
from Lee Parker’s closed adoption is unlocked. She also sees
an old photograph of a genetic relative—a 19th Century woman
with hair and eyes likes hers—standing in a pile of rubble
from an ecological disaster next to none other than Clara
Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross. Determined to
identify the woman in the photo and unearth the mystery of
that captured moment, Lee digs into history. Her journey
takes her from California to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, from
her present financial woes to her past of privilege, from
the daily grind to an epic disaster. Once Lee’s heroic DNA
is revealed, will she decide to forge a new fate?
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