Gildedage Stories

It's the Gilded Age. New York City, and increasingly the world, runs on steam and magic. A small number of families control national industry, influence global markets...

Everyone knew the tragic story of the Crawley family. How the barely new Countess of Grantham disappeared from Downton Abbey along with their newborn son and heir. They...

1880s, New York. Élisabeth and Madeleine D'Amour are fresh to New York thanks to their railroad tycoon father. Élisabeth yearns to return to France because there is noth...

Originally written: December 2020. Part Four of the time-traveling saga of Orraca and Beatriz-- but really, this is more about Ida, Beatriz's descendant. So we won't se...

In an America embroiled in the all-encompassing inequities of the Gilded Age, with industrialists making their riches while the workers fight for their freedoms, a teena...

In the heart of the Gilded Age, New York City suffers from a rift in humanity. On one end the giants of industry, the tycoons. On the other, the labor they utilize for t...

*under construction 👷* Magic is a secret. Especially when we want it for ourselves. Vexilla Marigold is a mage from England. She knows not to tell others of her secret...

A queer retelling of the great gatsby, centered around the character of Jay Gatsby, but also featuring narration from Jordan, Nick, and a few other minor characters that...

A young and impressionable night clerk at an luxe hotel gets mixed up with a criminal crowd in 1940s Denver.

An introductory second-person POV story featuring you, the protagonist, and an unassuming lady whose sordid past seems to be not that far behind her. I'd like to make t...

Set in the 1870s and 1880s, AG, EL is about four wealthy American girls and their socially ambitious families being snubbed by polite society for being new money. The gi...

A god of time just got knocked down a peg. Cora is a billion year-old god that has devoted her existence into memorizing the timeline, and more importantly fixing it. Wh...

When a reclusive inventor meets the girl next door... With the fate of her disgraced family resting on her shoulders, Lady Christina Barclay has arrived in New York City...

Cheyenne and Alysia Astor are the stars of the social season. These twins are each others only friend among all the other back-stabbing and gossipy debutantes. It's well...

© Laurel London, The 19th Century. 2023 This e-book is a compendium - giving you an understanding of the 19th century from a British perspective, and through the Western...

He moved to Edenton looking to get away from the distractions of city life. He found just the opposite in Sullivan House. Sitting high atop a nearby mountainside, the...

A short story about a rich society maiden during the Gilded Age who is jaded by her lavish lifestyle until she makes a decision that brings back the spark in her marriag...

In this first book of a trilogy, William Durant and his sister Ella have spent most of their youth living abroad while their father invests in land and builds a railroad...

There is nothing wrong with New York debutante Bertille Dubon's life. She has a great family-one of the most respected In New York-interesting friends, and all the time...