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The Engineer's Wife
THE ENGINEER'S WIFE
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Introducing new release, The Engineer’s Wife
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I would definitely be interested in reading this!!
This sounds like a great book. I love the cover art. I would pick up this book just by looking at the cover.
I’m Tracey Enerson Wood, and I am thrilled to guest host for this week. I’d like to start off with introducing my historical novel, The Engineer‘s Wife, which was released this week.
Here is a synopsis:
Based on the true story of Emily Warren Roebling, whose life is transformed when she must complete her husband's magnum opus—the Brooklyn Bridge, a project of unthinkable scale that takes her into the bowels of the East River, suffragette riots, the halls of Manhattan's elite, and the heady, freewheeling world of her new friend P.T. Barnum,
Emily refuses to live conventionally—she knows who she is and what she wants, and she’s determined to make change.But then her husband Wash asks the unthinkable: give up her dreams to make his possible.
Emily’s fight for women’s suffrage is put on hold when she temporarily takes over Wash’s role as Chief Engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge after he is injured on the job. It’s challenging, but the work gives her power and purpose like she’s never known before. Lines blur as Wash’s vision becomes her own, and when he doesn’t return to the job, Emily is consumed by it. But as the project takes shape under Emily’s direction, she wonders whose legacy she is building—hers, or her husband’s. The monument rises, and Emily’s marriage, principles, and identity threaten to collapse. When the bridge finally stands finished, will she recognize the woman that built it?
Based on the true story of the Brooklyn Bridge, The Engineer’s Wife delivers an emotional portrait of a woman transformed by a project of unfathomable scale, and of a husband and wife determined to build something that lasts—evenat the risk of losing each other.
Now available wherever books are sold.
I will be giving away a hard copy, or audible copy (winner’s choice) on Friday! Stay tuned this week for hints and tips for how to win.