When Georgina Henry's five-year-old son drowns on their estate in 1837 Maine, she blames fate, God, and eventually herself... until the truth surfaces: her husband Liam was not working late the night their child died. He was in the nursery, coercing their young governess into silence, and into his bed.
Set against the backdrop of a changing America on the cusp of economic collapse and social reform, The Woman of Redwood Hall is a historical women's novel with slow-burn thriller elements. As Georgina falls into a quiet, deeply forbidden romance with a Black banker named Antoine, she must navigate race, class, and the threat of scandal in a society that punishes women for surviving men like her husband.