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...

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

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...

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...

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 trou...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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

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...

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...

The Yellow-Eyed Demon has Sam in his crosshairs. Is a certain Greek goddess the solution or will she place everyone's lives in jeopardy? November 2006. Crossed Lines sto...

© 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...

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...

This is a chapter from a novel I'm working on called "Cultbreakers," wherein our heroine is tasked by the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans to find her way into an i...