Description: Title: The Price of a Contract Author: Fisher, Ellen Kingman Publisher: Clio Muse Press Binding: Paperback Pages: 354 Dimensions: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d Product Weight: 1.14 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780999495025 When railroads met at Promontory Point, Utah, in 1869, the world changed. For the first time, trains spanned the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific, bringing the telegraph with them. Instant communication transformed that society much as the Internet would a future generation. Kate Sinclair is a fiercely independent woman during a time when women were deemed passive, even inconsequential. She boldly travels from New York to San Francisco on one of the first transcontinental railroads, where she meets Frank Ellsworth, a handsome stranger going west for a job with Western Union. Frank is hard to resist. Industrious and alluring. It is his responsibility to ensure Western Union remains the dominant telegraph company. The company faces stiff competition from ever-evolving technology and greedy industrialists bent on amassing wealth by any means necessary. As Kate and Frank fall in love, everything seems right, but when Frank hints at something lasting, he is met with resistance. Is Kate's life haunted by family secrets? Is she afraid that a commitment means loss of independence? The Price of a Contract is a story of love and mistakes during the tumultuous era of greed, political corruption, and inequality later coined the Gilded Age. The setting is a particular time period, but the issues of relationships, personal decisions, and business ethics are timeless.The Price of a Contract is the second historical fiction in a series about business entrepreneurs in the American West. From the first book, Hill's Gold, fans will recognize Nathaniel and Alice Hill, innovators in the frontier West- this time as secondary characters. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Book Title: Price of a Contract
Number of Pages: 354 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Clio Muse Press
Item Height: 1 in
Topic: General, Historical
Publication Year: 2022
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 20 oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Ellen Fisher
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
