title: Win, Place, or Show
author: Vetsch, Erica
description: "
  Love Flourishes during America's Gilded Age
  
   Journey along in nine historical romances with those whose lives are transformed by the opulence, growth, and great changes taking place in America's Gilded Age. Nine couples meet during these exhilarating times and work to build a future together through fighting for social reform, celebrating new opportunities for leisure activities, taking advantage of economic growth and new inventions, and more. Watch as these romances develop and legacies of faith and love are formed.
  
  Union Pacific Princess
   by Jennifer Uhlarik -
  Cheyenne, Dakota Territory, 1867
   In the hell-on-wheels rail town of Cheyenne, grieving Boston socialite Dara Forsythe must choose between her estranged father; Connor, a bigwig with the Union Pacific Railroad; and Gage Wells, a former Confederate sharpshooter bent on derailing the Transcontinental Railroad's progress.
  
  The Right Pitch
   by Susanne Dietze -
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1876
   Guarded industrialist Beck Emerson agrees to sponsor his sister's all-female baseball team. But when pretty pitcher Winnie Myles throws a curveball that makes him team manager, it challenges his plan to play it safe in life and love.
  
  A Gift in Secret
   by Kathleen Y'Barbo -
  New Orleans, Louisiana, 1871
   May Bolen offers Sam Austin a marriage of convenience. He will get to run the company that drove his into bankruptcy, and she will be free from her father's rule to travel the world. But when Sam meets May, he knows the offer is too good to be true-or convenient-when hearts become tangled.
  
  For Richer or Poorer
   by Natalie Monk -
  Newark, New Jersey, 1885
   In order to bring her starving family to New Jersey, Polish immigrant Marcella Lipski must marry wealth. So she takes Americanization lessons from the poor-but-mysterious cart driver teaching her English-and loses her heart in the process.
  
  A House of Secret
  s by Michelle Griep -
  St. Paul, MN 1890
   Ladies Aide Chairman, Amanda Carston resolves to clean up St. Paul's ramshackle housing, starting with the worst of the worst: a "haunted" house that's secretly owned by her beau-a home that's his only means of helping brothel girls escape from the hands of the city's most infamous madam.
  
  Win, Place, or Show
  by Erica Vetsch -
  New York City, 1890
   Beryl Valentine, a socialite with a passion for horses, finds herself falling in love with her riding instructor, a man her parents will never accept. Will she follow her parents' wishes, or let Gard Kennedy ride away with her heart?
  
  The Fisherman's Nymph
   by Jaime Jo Wright -
  Flambeau River, Wisconsin, 1890
   The reclusive daughter of a fly-fisherman guide must read the waters for a wealthy gentleman's sport and send him back where he belongs before he hooks her heart and takes her away from the river she was born to love.
  
  The Gardener's Daughter
   by Anne Love -
  Bay View, Michigan, 1895
   When the nephew of a prestigious Chautauqua resort founder sets his eye on the new library assistant believing her an academy student, it will take more than reciting poetry for love to bloom when he learns she's the humble gardener's daughter.
  
  A Tale of Two Hearts
   by Gabrielle Meyer -
  Little Falls, Minnesota, June 1899
   Reputations and jobs are on the line when lady's maid, Lucy Taylor, and neighboring footman, Elijah Boyer, compete against each other for a place of honor during the annual community appreciation event hosted by their wealthy employers.
  "