Miss Blaire in Blackwell's Island - Paperback

by Grace Hitchcock (Author)

Will Edyth prove her sanity before it is too late?

On Blackwell's Island, New York, a hospital was built to keep its patients from ever leaving.

With her late parents' fortune under her uncle's care until her twenty-fifth birthday in the year 1887, Edyth Blaire does not feel pressured to marry or to bow to society's demands. She freely indulges in eccentric hobbies like fencing and riding her velocipede in her cycling costume about the city for all to see. Finding a loophole in the will, though, her uncle whisks Edyth off to the women's lunatic asylum just weeks before her birthday. And Edyth fears she will never be found.

At the asylum she meets another inmate, who upon discovering Edyth's plight, confesses that she is Nellie Bly, an undercover journalist for The World. Will either woman find a way to leave the terrifying island and reclaim her true self?

From an award-winning author comes a terrifying true crime, featuring an unrequited love, a kidnapping going from bad to worse, and a hero desperate to find his heroine ... all set in New York with all the sigh-worthy swoon, but no spice!

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