In Abeyance
An American Historical Erotic Romance
Three very different men shape Anne's life, particularly her view of love. Now she must determine what is right and what is all wrong.
For her.
When a lifetime of longing for a man - a wealthy and handsome gentleman by anyone's standards - culminates in an interlude that shatters Anne, her loss of self-respect leaves her ripe for another's cruel manipulations.
This second man destroys what remains of her dignity, then methodically uses her to his own despicable ends.
The third man's erotic courtship strips away all her remaining defenses and she finds herself not only helplessly drawn to him but willing to sacrifice the comforts of the familiar and embrace a future of uncertainty at best but one in which she might finally find her true self.
Background & related info
- The Fricks and Gilded Age Fashion
- Charles Worth, father of haute couture
- The Vanderbuilt Ball - the Gilded Age
There was a lot going on in Boston during the Guilded Age. The city grew in size as the marshlands known as Back Bay were transformed from a polluted area, dangerous to health to a fashionable new development with the broad boulevard of Commonwealth Avenue becoming a central feature. This wide avenue with a central parkland separating traffic to and from the Public Gardens became part of Fredric Law Olmstead's grand plan of an "Emerald Necklace" of public parks surrounding the city.
Boston also emerged as a great showplace of architecture in America with the construction of the Beaux-Arts Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts in Copley Square. The orginal campus of MIT also graced the are and the newly developing Back Back satisfied the demand for luxury housing in the city.
Beyond art and architecture, fashion was changing with the Gilded Age and a new asthetic took hold. Take a look at more details of the fashion world in the Background links to
the right.