She Walks in Beauty

Kindle freebie romance. Except not so much. Clara Carter is a 17 year old New York debutante during the Gilded Age. Her comfortable life is upended when wealthy and suave Franklin De Vries comes back into town and Clara's bossy aunt determines that Clara is going to snag him. Endless rounds of tortuo......more

Clara Carter is an intelligent girl, motherless, being instructed in maths, science and languages by her governness who even thinks she could attend college. Those plans are swiftly aborted when her aunt dismisses the governness and announces that instead of debuting next season, she is to debut thi......more

In the past, you may have read my opinions of Siri Mitchell and seen that I enjoy the writing, but that the story was imperceptibly depressing. I was shocked and appauled with the lack of soul in Constant Heart, A yet the historical elements were incredible and the writing so true. It was in reading......more

Clara Carter has no desire to be a debutante in New York City at the height of the Gilded Age. At 17, she expected to have one more year of freedom before devoting her life to tedious balls, operas, and dinners, not to mention restrictive clothing. But her father and overbearing aunt force her to co......more

EDITED--This is free on Kindle right now (3/2/11)--Snatch it up! This haunting, lovely tale was timeless and worthy of Austen-eque comparisons. It's ostensibly billed as Christian Historical, but I would more accurately describe it as YA historical as it's the 17 year old first person narrator who d......more