The Gilded Cage

December 31, 1889. As the sky over New York City explodes with fireworks on the eve of the new decade, an explosion in the streets causes social tremors that will rock the lives of three women who share a house on Twenty-Third Street: suffragette Columbine Nash, her assistant Bell Huxton, and Marguerite Corbeau, a young woman they’ve adopted from the streets.

Lovely noble Columbine, a woman ahead of her time, strives to correct the social ills that are created by her class; lush, beautiful B...