In 1867 Jennifer Harris buries her husband, becomes the mistress of the president of a major New York City bank, and begins work as a reporter for Elizabeth Cady Stanton's newspaper. In this capacity she gets involved with the major issues of the day for women - the movement for equality and voting rights - and with some major players - Susan B. Anthony, Victoria Woodhull, Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, Frederick Douglass, P.T. Barnum and George Francis Train. The novel is a cross between fiction - the young woman and her personal problems with life and love - and real characters and events...
In 1867 Jennifer Harris buries her husband, becomes the mistress of the president of a major New York City bank, and begins work as a reporter for Eli...