Heiress by Susan May Warren
Heiress by Susan May Warren
Daughters of Fortune, #1
Genre: Christian Historical Fiction
Early 1900s – New York and Montana
Pages: 380 Trade Paperback
Date Published: July 1st 2011
Publisher: Summerside Press
They can buy anything they want-fame, power, beauty, even loyalty.
But they can’t buy love.
The beautiful and wealthy heiress daughters of August Price can buy everything their hearts desire. But what if their desire is to be loved, without an enormous price tag attached? When one sister betrays another for the sake of love, will she find happiness? And what happens when the other sets out across the still untamed frontier to find it-will she discover she’s left it behind in the glamorous world of the New York gilded society? What price will each woman pay for being an heiress?
Set in the opulent world of the Gilded Age, two women discover that being an heiress just might cost them everything they love.
Read from September 21 to 23, 2011 — I own a copy
Susie was one of the first authors that I discovered back when I stumbled across Liz Curtis Higgs and began my all-consuming love of Christian Historical Fiction. It was her Heirs of Anton series. So now that I find she is writing another new series set in the “opulent world of the Gilded Age” I could help but be intrigued! This era seems to be a poplar one as I’ve also gotten my hands on one from Nancy Moser and before that Siri Mitchell. I could not wait to see Susie’s take on it!
At about 183 pages of this 380 page novel I can already say I feel like I’ve already read two full novels in this short page length with the sisters two stories. Both of romance and tragedy. I’m waiting for Oliver to walk up and say, oh it was a mistake and for Bennett to look out over the sea and return. Alas.
At just over halfway through I felt like I’m in another novel, this time a western. This is awesome. You get a gilded age adventure and a prairie romance too! As the character comes up, I am remembering all my history bullet points on Teddy Roosevelt phrases and I think Susie is hitting them all. In finishing another segment I promise these could be individual novels. Changing characters and following along in history it is as if the Heirs of Anton series were one long book instead of four shorter ones.
I did not expect a thing. Honestly I haven’t finished reading any of the Golden Era novels except Cara Lynn James first one as it came across. After finishing this one I’m desperate for more. I want to go back to the Moser and Mitchell books and get more of the time and the era. I want to find the rest of James series and drink it all in. I cannot wait for more Daughters of Fortune. I cannot even imagine what comes next. Every twist and turn took me by surprise and I was rereading sections because I was just sure that I misunderstood. Not after everything, could that happen! – I kept saying to myself. But it did. Every thing that happened made things lead to the next. It reminds me of endings that I imagined for tragic movies that did not end as I wished in their romance.
This was and is awesome.
*Thanks to Litfuse Publicity for providing a copy for review.*
The Prices live among the elite set-the Carnegies, the Vanderbilts, and the Astors. These families shined in the reflection of their gold, but under all the glitter simmered stories of adultery, murder, embezzlement, and unrest. The people who had everything were still unsatisfied. The Price sisters, Esme and Jinx, learn there may be something of deeper value they can’t purchase with their money and influence. But at what price does this lesson come?
Master storyteller, Susan May Warren patterned Heiress after the story of Jacob and Esau. “I wanted to create two daughters of wealth and power and portray the way each handled the deep longings of their heart,” says Warren. “I also wanted to explore what it means to be blessed. It is possible to be blessed in poverty as well as wealth?”
Learn how the Prices came to answer these questions in Heiress, the first novel in the new Daughters of Fortune series.
Susan May Warren is an award-winning, best-selling author of over twenty-five novels, many of which have won the Inspirational Readers Choice Award, the ACFW Book of the Year award, the Rita Award, and have been Christy finalists. After serving as a missionary for eight years in Russia, Susan returned home to a small town on Minnesota’s beautiful Lake Superior shore where she, her four children, and her husband are active in their local church.
Susan’s larger than life characters and layered plots have won her acclaim with readers and reviewers alike. A seasoned women’s events and retreats speaker, she’s a popular writing teacher at conferences around the nation and the author of the beginning writer’s workbook: From the Inside-Out: discover, create and publish the novel in you!. She is also the founder ofwww.MyBookTherapy.com, a story-crafting service that helps authors discover their voice.
Susan makes her home in northern Minnesota, where she is busy cheering on her two sons in football, and her daughter in local theater productions (and desperately missing her college-age son!)
A full listing of her titles, reviews and awards can be found at:www.susanmaywarren.com.
Susan May Warren is thrilled to announce the release of her latest historical book, Heiress!
Find out what the reviewers are saying here!
Heiress, a richly complex historical romance, is the first in Susan’s three book Daughters of Fortune series. In honor of Heiress’ debut, Susan is hosting a FABULOUS Gilded Age Giveaway and giving away an opulent prize pack fit for an heiress!
One grand prize winner will receive:
- A $100 gift certificate to ModCloth.com
- A sleek silver iPodâ„¢ Shuffle
- A beautiful strand of Pearls
- Titanic DVD
- Speakeasy Compilation Music CD from Starbucksâ„¢
- Heiress by Susan May Warren
Click one of the icons below to enter. But do so soon – this giveaway ends 10/5/11. The winner will be announced Thursday, October 6 on Susan’s blog.
Blog tour schedule: http://litfusegroup.com/blogtours/text/13429072
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5 Comments
marge
I so cant wait to read this! I cant wait to start the Daughter’s of fortune series. 🙂
CherryBlossomMJ
I have less than a hundred pages left and I’m loving it. Full review update to come. 🙂
CherryBlossomMJ
Oh definitely. I’m sure there are others of hers that I should go back for as well. It was Susie and Susan Downs as well as Liz Curtis Higgs that brought me into the world of Christian Historical Fiction that I now live and breathe. 🙂
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