Review: Well written historical romance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2012
Set in Pittsburgh in 1891As Owen Cardiff toils in 130 degrees heat working with molten steel at the Homestead Steel works, he dreams of escaping the grinding brutality. He wants to become an Engineer, but has to save enough money to pay for his university tuition.After the death of her father, Lisa Bradley marries wealthy stockbroker, William Enright, Unbeknown to her; he only wants a socially acceptable wife to host his business functions and to run his household. He has several mistresses and is a thoroughly reprehensible character.Owen and Lisa meet at a literary club and fall in love, but it can never be as he is a lowly steel worker and she is a married society lady.The writer depicts the strike at the steel factory very realistically, the violence and treachery as unionist fight the factory owner who has bought in Pinkerton men and scab labour, so they can grind the unionists into the ground.There was so much keeping Owen and Lisa apart, I feared that they would never achieve their HEA, but all the loose ends were finally tied up in a neat little bow.Great reading.Margaret Tanner