A wealthy family. A deadly secret. A young woman with more to lose than she knows. Josephine Montfort is from one of New York's oldest, most respected, and wealthiest families. Like most well-off girls of the Gilded Age, her future looks set - after a finishing school education, she will be favourably married off to a handsome gentleman, after which she'll want for nothing. But Jo has other dreams and desires that make her long for a very different kind of future. She wants a more meaningful and exciting life: she wants to be an investigative journalist like her heroine Nellie Bly. But when Jo's father is found dead in his study after an alleged accident, her life becomes far more exciting than even Jo would wish. Unable to accept that her father could have been so careless, she begins to investigate his death with the help of a young reporter, Eddie Gallagher. It quickly becomes clear he was murdered, and in their race against time to discover the culprit and his motive, Jo and Eddie find themselves not only battling dark characters on the violent and gritty streets of New York, but also their growing feelings for each other.
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Weight: 394g
Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
Publication Date: 05 May 2016
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Age Group: Ages 12+
ISBN13: 9781471405174
About Jennifer Donnelly
Jennifer Donnelly is the author of thirteen novels and a picture book for children. She grew up in New York State and studied English Literature and European History at the University of Rochester. Jennifer's first novel THE TEA ROSE is an epic historical novel set in London and New York in the late 19th century. Her second novel A GATHERING LIGHT set against the backdrop of an infamous murder in the Adirondacks of 1906 won the Carnegie Medal the Los Angeles Times Book Prize the Borders Original Voices Award and was named a Printz Honor book. In 2014 Jennifer teamed up with Disney to launch the bestselling WATERFIRE saga an epic series about six mermaids on a quest to rid the world of an ancient evil. Jennifer lives in New York's Hudson Valley with her husband daughter and two rescue dogs. Follow Jennifer at www.jenniferdonnelly.com or on Twitter: @JenWritesBooks
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