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by Susan Wiggs
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Heidi Hart
Heidi Hart rated it 9 years ago
I picked this up on sale a month or so ago because of the series premise: a quartet of finishing school girls get caught up in the swarm of humanity fleeing the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. This first book in the series focuses on Deborah, the only daughter of one of the city's most wealthy men. Duri...
karenf
karenf rated it 11 years ago
This books starts a little slow but the second half really makes up for it. Deborah starts off the book not so much spoiled as just oblivious as to how other people live and how to take care of herself. I saw other reviews where they disliked her for this but for me it was realistic as to how she ...
The Book Gourmet
The Book Gourmet rated it 14 years ago
Not many books leave me speechless, especially not books by authors I've never read before, but Susan Wiggs succeeded with this first book in her Chicago Fire Trilogy.It started so slow I was convinced I'd be bored to tears only a few chapters in, but that's when things picked up pace and I was rive...
Romancing the Novel
Romancing the Novel rated it 14 years ago
* Must love big strong half Indian mountain men, who will walk through miles and miles of life threatening blizzards to save his woman* Deborah Sinclair is an heiress who is engaged to be married to a man from an aristocratic family mainly because her father wants this marriage. Something happened...
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