This highly anticipated debut novel by Robert Brighton is inspired by a true crime ‘murder
of the century’ and transports us to Buffalo, New York, set against the backdrop of Gilded
Age splendor and excess…
Named BookLife “Editor’s Pick” - “… Written with grace and power …”
Love, Lust, and Murder in the Gilded Age
Buffalo, New York, 1901 … a muscular, young city, Queen of the Lakes … The Electric City …
where the money spent to build Newport mansions and Park Avenue townhouses is made, plays
host to the world’s greatest fair, the Pan-American Exposition and its 8,000,000 guests.
Less than a mile from the great spectacle, a web of love, lust, and intrigue is forming among the elite
Ashwood Set. But life is never fast enough, or high enough, for the Ashwood Set, who plunge
headlong into a deadly whirlpool of official corruption, financial deceit, and infidelity that can only
end in disaster.
The Unsealing
is a gripping, psychological tale of forbidden pleasures and fathomless pain.