Elinor and Lucy Sutherland are sisters, friends, and rivals in
The It Girls by Karen Harper. Lucy has reshaped herself into the revolutionary fashion designer Lucile. When she marries Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, her life seems to be right out of a fairy tale, but then comes the night of April 14, 1912 which brings shame and scandal to Lucy's world. Elinor, on the other hand, has built a career of writing titillating popular novels and has even dabbled in the world of Hollywood. Elinor's books are filled with stories of passion, however, true love eludes her. Arguments, distance, and destiny fail to break the bonds of these two "It Girls" of their day.
New York City in 1914 is brought to life through the lives of Suzanne and Jada in
Ziegfeld Girls by Sarah Barthel. Both are talented and resourceful and as close as sisters, but Jada is the black maid of wealthy Suzanne. As the latter begins to gain recognition as the new rising star of the Ziegfeld Follies, Jada is discovered and her superb voice and dance skills bring her own success and a new life. When a jealous Suzanne reveals a shocking secret, the two become bitter rivals. They must form an uneasy alliance in the face of relentless racism and as someone targets the Ziegfeld girls with vicious threats. They will put their careers on the line and it could even cost them their pursuit of love, success, and equality.
In
Bachelor Girl by Kim van Alkemade, young actress Helen Winthrope is taken under the wing of Colonel Jacob Ruppert--eccentric owner of the New York Yankees baseball team. Helen thinks Ruppert is feeling guilty over the accident that killed her father, but she welcomes the chance to better herself and embraces her status as a "bachelor girl." She finds herself falling in love with Ruppert's personal secretary, Albert Kramer, even as he confesses a dark secret to her. When Ruppert dies, rumors start swirling about his true connection with Helen after the stunning revelation that he has left her most of his fortune, including Yankee Stadium.
Lindsay Jayne Ashford puts famed writer Agatha Christie in the middle of it all in
The Woman on the Orient Express. Having just divorced her husband, Agatha boards the famed train in disguise to find her own way in life. She isn't the only passenger with secrets to board the train, however. Her cabin mate Katharine Keeling is running from a second relationship mired in lies after her first marriage ended tragically. Nancy Nelson is on the precipice of despair as she tries to conceal her pregnancy. She is newly married, but carrying another man's child. These women hide their pain and guard their secrets with a fervor, but as the train makes its way to the Middle East, they form a bond of sisterhood as the parallel courses of their lives are revealed.
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