An urgent telegram from his family's attorney to come home immediately interrupts Spencer's carefree life in England in 1927. Spencer A Wentworth, a scion of an old wealthy banking family of the New York Gold Coast in Long Island, returns from a three-year Grand Tour with a big surprise waiting for him that he is not prepared to handle. Thus begins a series of events putting pressure on his personal life.
With the stock market about to collapse, he can lose everything including Wentworth Hall, his ancestral home which he was determined to save at all cost even if it means losing the only woman he loves.
A tale of responsibility, love, betrayal, and suspense during the Gilded Age. It is a fascinating account of the way of life long gone.
Rosalinda R Morgan was born and raised in the Philippines before moving to New York after college with $100, a suitcase, and a dream. Tired of the cold weather in New York, she now lives in a lakefront townhouse in Charleston, South Carolina.
She writes historical novels, and the latest is "A Woman of Substance," which won Second Place for 2024 BookFest Book Award for Historical Fiction, preceded by a memoir, "The Zigzag Road" which won Third Place at the 2023 BookFest Book Award for Memoir. She also writes gardening articles and is the editor of the "Carolina Rosarian" of the Carolina District of the American Rose Society, which won the Gold Award for the ARS 2022 newsletter and another Gold Award for the 2023 newsletter competition.
She was once a C.P.A, then a real estate agent, before she became an author. She enjoys reading, and her favorite genre is historical fiction. She loves to garden, and her favorite flower is the rose which she writes about extensively.