Jen Turano's Blog, page 2
December 14, 2015
Playing the Part
Lucetta Plum is an actress on the rise in New York City, but is forced to abandon her starring role when a fan’s interest turns threatening. Lucinda’s widowed friend, Abigail Hart, is delighted at the opportunity to meddle in Lucetta’s life and promptly whisks her away to her grandson’s estate to hide out. Bram Haverstein […]
July 8, 2015
August 24, 2014
The Not-Quite True Fairytale of the Gilded Age
As a romance author, I’m constantly on the lookout for inspiration for future books. While perusing a fabulous copy, although I will admit my copy is a little…grimy, of “King Lehr” and the Gilded Age by Elizabeth Drexel Lehr, I thought I’d finally discovered a real fairytale come to life. However, it turns out that […]
July 5, 2014
In Good Company
After spending her childhood in an orphanage, Millie Longfellow is determined to become the best nanny the East Coast has ever seen. Unfortunately, her enthusiasm for her job tends to bring about situations that have employers looking askance at her methods. After her most recent dismissal, Millie is forced to return yet again to an […]
May 1, 2014
The First Queen of the Gilded Age – The Mrs. Astor
The First Queen of the Gilded Age – Mrs. William Backhouse Astor II The Mrs. Astor In the aftermath of the Civil War, New York society found itself facing a dilemma of epic proportions. Their small world of carefully chosen, socially acceptable, families was coming under attack by none other than the pesky nouveaux rich. […]
March 25, 2014
The Gilded Age
Since all of my novels are set during the Gilded Age, I thought it might be fun to add little tidbits here about that time in our history. The Gilded Age epithet first came into being thanks to Mark Twain and a book he coauthored in 1873 titled The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. […]
March 15, 2014
After a Fashion
Miss Harriet Peabody dreams of the day she can open up a shop selling refashioned gowns to independent working women like herself. Unfortunately, when an errand for her millinery shop job goes sadly awry due to a difficult customer, she finds herself out of an income. Mr. Oliver Addleshaw is on the verge of his […]
February 25, 2014
A Match of Wits
Coming July 2014 After his departure from New York two years ago to meet up with his almost-fiance, Zayne Beckett is the last person Agatha Watson wanted to stumble upon in her travels as a reporter with the New York Tribune. Quite pathetically bedraggled, he clearly needs to be taken in hand and sent back […]
