"The creative sisterhood of Little Women, the social scandal of
Edith Wharton and the courtship mishaps of Jane Austen. . . . The Fifth
Avenue Artists Society is delightful." -- New York Daily News
In a family of four artistic sisters on the outskirts of Gilded Age
New York high society, the oldest--an aspiring writer--is caught between
the boy next door and a mysterious novelist who inducts her into
Manhattan's most elite artistic salon which has a seedy underbelly and
secrets to hide.
The Bronx, 1891. Virginia Loftin, the boldest of four sisters in a
family living in genteel poverty, knows what she wants most: to become a
celebrated novelist despite her gender, and to marry Charlie, the boy
next door and her first love.
When Charlie proposes instead to a woman from a wealthy family, Ginny is
devastated; shutting out her family, she holes up and turns their story
into fiction, obsessively rewriting a better ending. Though she works
with newfound intensity, literary success eludes her--until she attends
a salon hosted in her brother's writer friend John Hopper's Fifth Avenue
mansion. Among painters, musicians, actors, and writers, Ginny returns
to herself, even blooming under the handsome, enigmatic John's
increasingly romantic attentions.
Just as she and her siblings have become swept up in the society,
though, Charlie throws himself back into her path, and Ginny learns that
the salon's bright lights may be obscuring some dark shadows. Torn
between two worlds that aren't quite as she'd imagined them, Ginny will
realize how high the stakes are for her family, her writing, and her
chance at love.
