Comments from Beverly Swerling, author of City of Dreams, City of Glory, and other works of best-selling historical fiction:
"Gilded Greed is a wild plunge into the past of one of the most fabled cities on the planet. Kathryn Callahan brings old New Orleans alive -- the bordellos, the music, the Voodoo, the food -- and peoples it with characters we genuinely care about."
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Gilded Greed is a story of corruption, revenge and desire during one of the most divisive political debates of the Gilded Age---the renewal of the Louisiana Lottery in 1891-1892.
The stakes are high. The Lottery Company wields significant political power through its ill-gotten profits. Opposition erupts, threatening to derail the lottery, an unacceptable financial set-back.
Desperation and growing tensions define those key characters as they embark on personal journeys of discovery and revenge; romantic liaisons that clash against the cultural divides; illegal activities that prey on the desperate and vulnerable; and acts of violent reprisals in a struggle that transcends the business of the lottery itself. Read more
About Kathryn Callahan
Kathryn Callahan is both a former insurance executive and award-winning bed and breakfast innkeeper on Cape Cod.
An avid recreational historian, exploring New Orleans has always yielded nuggets of information that made this unique city an obvious choice as the setting for her first novel. Her fascination with New Orleans began in 1981 and continues to this day. She's visited this historic and colorful city more than thirty times. Read more
Excerpt from the Book
It's August, 1891, and Dutch Nolan is nervously getting ready at his home in the Five Points section of New York for a meeting with Dick Croker, the boss of Tammany Hall . . . Read more
