The House of a Merchant Prince (Classic Reprint): A Novel of New York: A Novel of New York (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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In The House of a Merchant Prince: A Novel of New York, power and family ambition collide in a bustling Gilded Age city. A behind-the-scenes world of finance, fashion, and fast-paced urban life shapes the fortunes and fates of a prominent trading house and those tied to it.

Set amid doorways, warehouses, and fashionable salons, the story follows Ottilie Harvey and her formidable relatives as they navigate wealth, duty, and romance. The novel blends street-level detail with high-society maneuvering, where a single decision can shift loyalties and reshape a family’s future.

- Meet a powerful merchant prince and his network of partners, clients, and rivals.
- Witness the planning and precision behind a winter social season that rules New York’s upper crust.
- See the pull between family obligation, personal desire, and the cost of ambition.
- Feel the texture of a city as it grows, with street life, fashion, and bold ambition interwoven.

Ideal for readers who enjoy historical fiction set in a vividly drawn late-19th-century New York, where business and romance walk side by side.

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