New York, 1899. Victoria Whitmore is the perfect daughter of one of the city's most powerful industrialists: the Worth gown, the Newport season, the carefully arranged future. She keeps journals, she crosses out when the sentences get too honest.
Then an investigative journalist hands her his card on the terrace of her parents' house, and Victoria begins to look at the world she was born into with new eyes. What she finds there will cost her everything she has been given - and give her everything she was made for.
Set against the opulence and hidden costs of Gilded Age New York, The Steel Heiress is the story of a woman who chooses truth over comfort, and of the love, the work, and the family she builds from that choice. Deeply romantic, morally serious, and impossible to put down.