Alice Billman

Some men accept their fate. Others make it.
In 1868, Rossburg, Pennsylvania, was a frontier town in the throes of a lumber boom. Overnight, millionaires were made and the boundaries of the inner circle were drawn.
Scottish immigrant Ian Douglas dared to defy those boundaries. He bowed to no man, and no one would control his destiny. In his quest for wealth, power, and social acceptance, Ian played a dangerous game with the power elite that threatened to destroy everything he had built and the two women who loved him.
Eleanor Morgan was the beautiful daughter of a powerful lumber baron and society’s heir apparent, who saw little beyond her gilded world. Maven McInnis was a striking Irish immigrant, who was fiercely proud of her roots and understood the consequences of crossing the lines of a closed society. One woman challenged Ian; the other anchored him. One held his heart, the other his soul. They shared a love for the same man and a secret that would bind them together for the rest of their lives.