“It’s 1890. The end of history’s most remarkable century. A time that would not come again.
What is to be discovered, has been found. What is to be invented, has been made. What is to be accumulated has fallen into the coffers of the men who own the world. Westinghouse has his airbrake. Edison has thrown the switch that lights the globe. Carnegie has the lock on steel.” And two young women on a train to Pittsburgh are about to make their own, iron-clad agreement.
Set against the backdrop of Gilded Age Pittsburgh and Muskoka, Canada, where rich Americans come to play, Discretion will be published in Canada by Knopf.