City of Light

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1901 Buffalo, New York was a city on the rise -- a place of wealth and sophistication. It is in this place and time that Louisa Barrett is headmistress of the Macaulay School for Girls. Miss Barrett is treated as an equal by the all-male school board and the men who run the city itself. She feels secure in her position until a mysterious death takes place at the city's power plant. Now Louisa must venture into the past she has struggled to conceal and to question everything and everyone she holds dear...