True Colors: Historical Stories of American Crime
Fiction Based on Strange, But True, History
Will Edyth prove her sanity before it is too late?
On Blackwell’s Island, New York, a hospital was built to keep its patients from ever leaving.
With her late parents’ fortune under her uncle’s care until her twenty-fifth birthday in the year 1887, Edyth Foster does not feel pressured to marry or to bow to society’s demands. She freely indulges in eccentric hobbies like fencing and riding her velocipede in her cycling costume about the city for all to see. Finding a loophole in the will, though, her uncle whisks Edyth off to the women’s lunatic asylum just weeks before her birthday. And Edyth fears she will never be found.
At the asylum she meets another inmate, who upon discovering Edyth’s plight, confesses that she is Nellie Bly, an undercover journalist for The World. Will either woman find a way to leave the terrifying island and reclaim her true self?
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Summary
Gray Chamber by Grace Hitchcock is a romantic suspense based on a true story from history. Shocking and appalling what was allowed to happen to women back in that time. Edythe is a character that you will enjoy. She is a tad eccentric and can be since she does not need to marry for money. Her parents passed away and she has inherited their estate and money. She only has a few more months before control of it will move from her uncle to her.
She has had a crush on her fencing instructor, Bane. He finally sees her as more than a student and she goes missing. He searches for her and is the only reason she was found.
Her uncle has sent her to Blackwell Island asylum. It is horrifying what was happening to the women in the asylum.
The author did a great job of telling the story.
Sexual content – kissing
Violence – the atrocities at the asylum are horrifying and the women hopeless.