The Architect of New York

By Siena Montacer

Headline: A skyline built on secrets. A passion that defies gravity.

New York, 1892. The city is reaching for the clouds, but for Thea Bradley, the Gilded Age offers only a cold shoulder. A brilliant architect in a world that refuses to let women build, she is forced to live in the shadows of the Lower East Side, selling her revolutionary designs under the name of her late brother, Thomas.

Magnus St. Clair is the "Iron Judge" of Fifth Avenue. Wealthy, arrogant, and desperate, he needs a miracle to keep his unfinished skyscraper from collapsing under the Atlantic winds. He hunts down the mysterious Thomas Bradley, only to find Thea-a woman with ink-stained hands and a mind sharper than his own engineers.

Magnus offers her a devil's bargain: Thea will be his secret weapon, his "shadow" designer, while he takes the public glory. But as they battle wind loads, rivets, and society's rigid expectations, the friction between them ignites a different kind of tension.

When a jealous rival threatens to expose Thea's fraud and destroy the St. Clair legacy, they must decide what is stronger: the steel that holds up their tower, or the fragile trust building between them.

In a city of stone and glass, can love survive the truth?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GHXN1J3R
• ISBN13: 9798244916850
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"