Seen-and punished.
Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1899-where elegant bathhouses steam, lavish hotels glitter, and eighteen-year-old Margaret Holloway, daughter of one of the town's most prominent families, is meant to marry well and behave better.
Instead, she falls for Officer John Doss: a working man with callused hands, a quiet steadiness, and no place in her mother's plans. Their love takes root in the seams of the spa city-between Bathhouse Row and West Mountain, between the Eastman's shadow and the eyes of the Arlington-until a mayoral feud turns the town's polished charm into something far more dangerous.
A tragic Gilded Age love story, steeped in Victorian Hot Springs:
beautiful,
bustling,
&
built on fault lines.