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Catherine Underhill Fitzpatrick

Start: 11/18/2010 7:00 pm

Mequon's Catherine Underhill Fitzpatrick's debut novel, A Matter of Happenstance, is an entertaining, intelligent, sweeping family saga that book clubs and fans of historical fiction won't want to miss. In gaslight-era St. Louis, a desperate dreamer on the edge of ruin unexpectedly inherits a fortune. George Reinhardt builds a grand retail emporium, a gamble that transforms him into a civic leader and an avatar of style. But, wealth, power, and prestige won't inoculate George and his descendants against heartache. Twists of fate braid his family's lives with the lives of a canal digger and a lace maker, a cotton picker's daughter and a scullery girl's sons, and link them all to a deadly assassin. From back-alley bordellos to the heights of society, A Matter of Happenstance takes you across continents, oceans, and eras as it weaves lives and luck, and proves happenstance is anything but.