The Gray Chamber (True Colors)

ISBN: 1643522353

Author: Hitchcock, Grace

Condition: New

True Colors: Historical Stories of American CrimeFiction Based on Strange, But True, HistoryWill Edyth prove her sanity before it is too late?On Blackwells Island, New York, a hospital was built to keep its patients from ever leaving.With her late parents fortune under her uncles care until her twenty-fifth birthday in the year 1887, Edyth Foster does not feel pressured to marry or to bow to societys demands. She freely indulges in eccentric hobbies like fencing and riding her velocipede in her cycling costume about the city for all to see. Finding a loophole in the will, though, her uncle whisks Edyth off to the womens lunatic asylum just weeks before her birthday. And Edyth fears she will never be found.At the asylum she meets another inmate, who upon discovering Edyths plight, confesses that she is Nellie Bly, an undercover journalist for The World. Will either woman find a way to leave the terrifying island and reclaim her true self?Also Look for:White City by Grace Hitchcock (March 2019)Pink Bonnet by Liz Tolsma (June 2019)Yellow Lantern by Angie Dicken (August 2019)Blue Cloak by Shannon McNear (March 2020)