"Beautifully written, compulsively readable... " So says Indie Reader of The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft - the riveting novel about a legendary woman in antebellum Missouri who allowed neither men nor society's conventions to keep her from cutting her own remarkable path.

The year is 1844. On a May midnight, Eliza Haycraft flings herself into a canoe to escape a husband who beats her and a life that does the same. She is penniless and illiterate. Yet a decade later, sex and secrets will make her the wealthiest woman in St. Louis, a frontier boom town at the western edge of a restless nation.

With only herself to rely on, Eliza becomes a prostitute and madam, then a property owner and puller of strings. She tangles with a vindictive rival and a governor who will become a Civil War turncoat. Scarred by experience, she finds true love but dares not admit it even to herself.

And when civil war looms, Eliza faces a devastating choice: whether to risk her own life for the survival of everything-and everyone-she holds dear.

Inspired by a true story, set in a tumultuous era too like our own, The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft is historical fiction at its sweeping best: with richly drawn characters, a shattering love story, and an extraordinary heroine you will remember long after the last page is turned...

Formato	Tapa dura
Número de Páginas	514
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	Bramerton Press, a Diana Dempsey Imprint
Fecha de Publicación	2023-06-21
Dimensiones	9.21" x 6.14" x 1.31" pulgadas
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	No
Temas	Guerra Civil, Femenino, 1851-1899

Dempsey, Diana

Diana Dempsey traded in an Emmy Award-winning career in TV news to write fiction. The first of her ten contemporary novels, Falling Star, was a finalist for a Romance Writers of America RITA award for Best First Book. The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft is her first historical novel. A graduate of Harvard University, Diana was born in Buffalo, New York, enjoyed stints in Belgium, the U.K., and Japan, and now resides in California with her husband and a West Highland White Terrier, not necessarily in that order.