num_pages: 352
description: USA Today bestselling author Meagan McKinney transports us to the opulent townhouses of 1881 New York, and into the life of a young spiritualist who enters a world of desire, obsession, and revenge.Lavinia Murphy fled a brutal St. Louis orphanage with four younger "siblings" and learned a spiritualist's ways from the carnies and gypsies she met on the road to New York City. Transformed as the mysterious Countess Lovaenya, she has built a safe haven for herself and her troubled family when she is suddenly confronted by a phantom more fearsome than any she's ever conjured in her shadowy parlor.Edward Stuyvesant-French—the illegitimate son of Lavinia's wealthiest, and most frequent client—has vowed to destroy her. To protect her family, Lavinia will enter into an uneasy bargain with the powerful and bitter Edward that forces her to understand that beyond the darkness of a troubled soul may lie a heart aching for comfort, acceptance, and healing love.
language: English
title: The Fortune Hunter
titlecomplete: The Fortune Hunter
characters: Edward Stuyvesant-French, Hazel Mae Murphy, Lavinia Murphy
genres: Historical Romance, Historical, Romance, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 114
places: New York City, New York
publisher: Zebra