{"product_id":"9780310338529_secrets-of-sloane-house","title":"Secrets of Sloane House","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAgainst the backdrop of the 1893 World's Fair, a new kind of crime comes to Gilded Age Chicago . . . and a lonely young woman is always at risk.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBack on the farm in Wisconsin, Rosalind's plan had seemed logical: Move to Chicago. Get hired on at Sloane House, one of the most gilded mansions of Chicago. Discover what transpired while her sister worked as a maid there--and follow the clues to why she disappeared.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, as a live-in housemaid to the Sloanes, Rosalind realizes her plan had been woefully simple-minded.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe was ignorant of the hard, hidden life of a servant in a big, prominent house; of the divide between the Sloane family and the people who served them; and most of all, she had never imagined so many people could live in such proximity and keep such dark secrets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet, while Sloane House is daunting, the streets of Chicago are downright dangerous. But when Rosalind accepts the friendship of Reid Armstrong, the handsome young heir to a Chicago silver fortune, she becomes an accidental rival to Veronica Sloane.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Rosalind continues to disguise her kinship to the missing maid--and struggles to appease her jealous mistress--she probes the dark secrets of Sloane House and comes ever closer to uncovering her sister's mysterious fate. A fate that everyone in the house seems to know . . . but which no one dares to name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Gray writes with honesty, tenderness, and depth. Her characters are admirable, richly layered, and impossible to forget long after the story is done.\" --Jillian Hart\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart of the Chicago World's Fair Mystery series: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBook one: Secrets of Sloane House\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBook two: Deception on Sable Hill\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBook three: Whispers in the Reading Room\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBook length: approximately 95,000 words\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes discussion questions for book clubs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Shelley Gray","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40702222794801,"sku":"9780310338529","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/9926\/3793\/files\/9780310338529.jpg?v=1779965576","url":"https:\/\/bakerbookhouse.com\/products\/9780310338529_secrets-of-sloane-house","provider":"Baker Book House ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}