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Modern & contemporary fiction
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Wordery
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Kensington publishing
House Of Silence : 9781496706089 : 15 Jan 2017 : For fans of HBO's The Gilded Age, explore the dazzling world of America's 19th century elite in this lush, page-turning saga... Oak Park, Illinois, 1875. Isabelle Larkin's future?like that of every young woman?hinges upon her choice of husband. She delights her mother by becoming engaged to Gregory Gallagher, who is charismatic, politically ambitious, and publicly devoted. But Isabelle's visions of a happy, profitable match come to a halt when she witnesses her fiancé commit a horrific crime?and no one believes her. Gregory denies all, and Isabelle's mother insists she marry as planned rather than drag them into scandal. Fearing for her life, Isabelle can think of only one escape: she feigns a mental breakdown that renders her mute, and is brought to Bellevue sanitarium. There she finds a friend in fellow patient Mary Todd Lincoln, committed after her husband's assassination. In this unlikely refuge, the women become allies, even as
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