In the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire, Bertha Honoré Palmer finds her world upended. The city is in ashes, fortunes are uncertain, and the future she once imagined has vanished.

Her husband considers leaving Chicago, but Bertha insists it is their duty to stay and rebuild, whatever the cost.

The Palmer House rises as a symbol of renewal, and within its glittering rooms, Bertha learns how influence is built and wielded, shaped through presence, persuasion, and restraint.

By the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, she steps onto an international stage as president of the Board of Lady Managers, where competing interests collide, alliances fracture, and every advance carries consequence.

From ashes to the White City, The Innkeeper's Wife is the story of a woman navigating duty, marriage, and power while making history.

Victoria Woodhull . . . and the country that tried to crush her.

In 1872, Victoria was the most famous woman in America. She ran for U.S. President on the Equal Rights Party ticket against, most notably, Ulysses S. Grant. She spent Election Day in jail.

In the course of her rise to political power, Victoria became a victim not only of the most famous man in America, the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, but also of her own family.

Unstoppable is a novel based on her life. It explores her youth, her marriages, her friendship with Henry Ward Beecher's sister, Isabella Beecher Hooker, and her relationships with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It is the story of the ideals she fought for, the slanders she withstood, and her determination to go on, even to the point of deceiving the authorities, so she could deliver her story, The Naked Truth.

Oklahoma, 1935. Black Sunday. From the moment a wall of black dust devours the plains and buries her world, Song Holloway's life is marked by dislocation and loss. Even in the rural New England town she now calls home, that dark cloud continues to follow her.

Then the army asks her to take up work at a classified facility in the muddy outpost of Oak Ridge, a city that doesn't appear on any map. Trained to test pipes, Song searches for leaks in a system no one will explain. The work is dangerous. People vanish. Yet it's here, behind the barbed wire and watchtowers, that she finds what the dust storm stole: a place to belong and women who become her second family. And there is Hol--a gentle soldier who gives her, for the first time, peace.

Until she's summoned. A small room. Two agents. Men with power she will never have. Song is given a command: spy on the women in your life. In a city built on secrets, keeping quiet used to be enough. Now it makes her complicit. But Song's choices will haunt her long after she learns what flowed through those pipes.

The Silent Women is a sweeping, absorbing, and deeply human story about chosen family, moral courage, and what it costs to live with the truth. Perfect for readers of The Women of Arlington Hall, The Frozen River, and The Women.

A free woman of color kidnapped and sold into slavery fights for her family and her freedom, sparking one of the most pivotal Supreme Court cases in American history.

This fully revised15th Anniversary Edition of Jessica McCann's award-winning debut novel brings new attention to the astonishing true story of Margaret Morgan-a free woman of color whose life changed forever on a frigid Pennsylvania night in 1837. When Maryland bounty hunters burst into her home, Margaret and her children are violently abducted, torn from everything they know, and sold into slavery. But even as her body and spirit are tested beyond imagining, Margaret refuses to stop fighting for her freedom and for the family ripped away from her.

Her ordeal sparks a firestorm that reaches the U.S. Supreme Court in Prigg v. Pennsylvania, a landmark decision that marked the first major pro-slavery ruling by the federal government and helped lay the groundwork for the states' rights battles that would erupt into the Civil War. While history often records the case as a constitutional turning point, McCann's engrossing novel shifts the focus to the woman at its center-restoring Margaret to her rightful place as a symbol of courage, resilience, and unyielding hope.

Richly researched and emotionally powerful, All Different Kinds of Free illuminates a critical but overlooked chapter of American history through the eyes of a woman who refused to be forgotten. This special anniversary edition celebrates both Margaret's legacy and McCann's enduring contribution to historical fiction.