Gildedage Stories

𝓐𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓪 𝓖𝓻𝓮𝓮𝓷𝓮 was never one to make waves past the confines of her immediate family. But, after her long awaited return from school in France following a rebellious childhood, complications await in New York City. Now dealing with the problems of an overbearing mother, a double life, old secrets, and an unfortunately charming new neighbor, she must find a way to live her life, her way. Win or lose, the game has only just begun. ˖ ݁♬⋆.˚𝄞˖ ܁♬⋆.˚𝄞 Book I of the 'Society's Stage' series Set during Season Two of The Gilded Age Larry Russell x fem!OC ON HOLD

*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 and is successful in this until a prisoner comes along. Jade Spade is a girl living in Brooklyn, New York. Her day turns upside down one summer night when being chased by someone with absurd things to say, making Jade believe they are dangerous. Because of this, Jade finds a magic diary in a dark alley that belongs to a mage named Vexilla... With a strong curiosity about magic and mysteries, Jade starts to feel pulled in by the magic, but will magic feel the same way about Jade?

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 teenager's vicious account of a Chicago riot comes to color the class tensions of the era. In this short piece of historical fiction, an ode to peaceful demonstration comes crashing down as bodies tangle and lives are lost, and violence remains the only path to salvation. Contains light gore. Enjoy.

Lucia and Charley are the products of Old New York's ruling elite. Prestige. Wealth. Tradition. Scandal. No one is immune. Not Charley, reckless, blithe courtier of trouble, heiress to the Montrose fortune, who has been conspicuously absent for over a year without a word of truth or explanation. Nor Lucia, as docile a daughter as any parent could wish for, carrying secrets of her own, slowly awakening to a yearning for things beyond obeisance to the established order, as deeply ingrained as Old New York's fascination for, and fear of, scandal. Sailing into the summer of 1929, on the eve of the Black Tuesday Wall Street Crash and a world on the brink of change, Charley and Lucia must keep their wits sharp about them in the pleasure capitals of the Continent and on the Nile to steer their futures away from peril. There are men and temptations to resist, intrigues and mysteries to untangle, secrets to hide, lies to weave, and jewel thieves to outsmart while, back home in New York and on the Exchange, the world rumbles and thunders ominously by. More hangs in the balance than the frivolities of the Jazz Age, the glitzy parties in London and the lures of Paris, automobile races, leisurely flirtations on the French Riviera, opulent Egyptian nights, and the catching of a brilliant matrimonial prize. This Grand Tour could prove to be the making of two young women, a prelude to freedom and independence, to saving and building an empire... Or perhaps merely an invitation to rebellion, scandal and unmitigated disaster. Running away or running towards? Tick-tock.

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 girls and their families set out to London in search of love or status. Nora is one of these girls who ends up marrying the Duke of Chatham. But will she be happy in this marriage? Or will she be inclined to start a relationship with The Hon. Peregrine Campbell.

The women of gilded age had no protection from their husbands abuse. They had just one strike to choose someone that would put them on equal footing and some of them were smart enough to choose wisely.

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 knew she didn't go willingly by the state of the scene of her last known whereabouts. Lord Grantham was forced to raise his three daughters on his own after the investigation turned up nothing. No one knew anything not even her family in New York. So where did she go? Robert Crawley hires a private detective to find out.

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 nothing exciting about New York. Nothing. Her sister Madeleine is excited, this is a new chapter in her life and she's going to enjoy it. The thing is about the D'Amours is that they are New money. New York is only for the old.

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 become more developed

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 from London to quickly secure a wealthy husband. But when her parents settle on an intolerable suitor, Christina turns to her reclusive neighbor, a darkly handsome and utterly compelling inventor, for help. Oliver Hawkes reluctantly agrees to a platonic marriage . . . with his own condition: The marriage must end after one year. Not only does Oliver face challenges that are certain to make life as his wife difficult, but more importantly, he refuses to be distracted from his life's work-the development of a revolutionary device that could transform thousands of lives, including his own. Much to his surprise, his bride is more beguiling than he imagined. When temptation burns hot between them, they realize they must overcome their own secrets and doubts, and every effort to undermine their marriage, because one year can never be enough. Available everywhere in paperback and e-book from Avon Books on September 25, 2018. Legally, this is only permitted to be a short sample of the published book. Read on for Chapter 1!

David moved to Edenton to get away from city life. He found just the opposite in Sullivan House. Sitting high atop a mountainside, the abandoned mansion was rumored to be cursed and haunted. His reporter's curiosity gets the best of him and he discovers a secret, shared legacy. Travelling back through time, he must somehow save the doomed residents, and their eternal souls as well.

A short faithful retelling of the fateful day that marked the beginning of the end of monopolies and the Gilded Age. John D. Rockefeller with his brother, William, and Ezra Prentice, on the run, have their friendship tested as they discuss the fate of Standard Oil Trust.

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 their profits, the men and women living in squalor. When John Watson, a lowly schoolmaster, gets the opportunity to join the household of the great Holmes family he expects a big paycheck and an upturned nose. What he didn't expect, however, was to be led through the privileged life all the way to the nightclub that gives the rich their pleasures. And inside, in the door opened by many, he may have found a secret love that is much closer to home than expected. Johnlock

© 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 lens of a neurodivergent 21st century female. The structure of the content is created in a repetitive style designed to encourage you to better understand and retain what you are reading. What you learn from History can help you understand why your world is the way it is today.

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

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, and set the tone socially. The Livingstons are one of the gilded families, a mixture of old money and money that is newer, although not nouveau riche. The patriarch, Bernard, is facing unprecedented opportunities for his family in the cutthroat business world, while his second wife has taken on the competitive marriage mart to find her children and stepchildren suitable matches. The Livingston offspring will navigate societal expectations, pressure, and pleasures, present but sometimes veiled dangers, and the varied applications of magic as they shape their lives. Tags and characters will be added as the story progresses.

This is the story of two servants'shenanigans, and the tales they would hear behind closed doors.

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. What happens when an error in perfecting the timeline results in Cora being banished from the heavens, to forever be forced to live as a mortal? Between a timeline that even the gods no longer understand, humans fighting over the source of infinite wisdom, and a fact that will reveal the secret to immortality 167,373 years too early; will Cora be able to resist her emotions? Or will fate manage to bend this god's iron will?