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During the Progressive Era in Bar Harbor, Maine, Mabel Rae has ambitions beyond her position as chambermaid. At the Serabelle cottage where the wealthy come to play in 1913, Mabel, a girl burgeoning into womanhood, is impregnated by estate owner Alistair Hunt. She becomes entangled in a plot by Julia Ainsworth-Hunt to exact revenge on her husband by stealing his precious gem collection. At the height of the suffrage movement in New England, when women are striving for a voice and where temperance has taken an early hold, Mabel must discover where her loyalties lie and what freedoms she will eventually possess.

Ever wonder what it's like to work backstage on a rock tour? Follow the women of
Where Are We Tomorrow?
backstage in the
award-winning novel

INSIDE THE CONCRETE arena, programmed lights whirred and spun in rhythm; eleven thousand fans watched, mesmerized, as vibrant magenta and violet beams sliced through midnight black. On stage, the band regurgitated the same set as the night before, and the night before that. They’d performed the set in Mexico City and Guadalajara. As far south as Santiago and Lima. The road crew for Sadie Estrada’s Home Remedy tour knew each dip in volume, each drop in the beat. They knew exactly, down to the second, how much time it required to step outside and suck down a Marlboro. These time-zone travelers planned bathroom breaks by the songs’ measures; no one missed a cue to mute the stage mics, to hand out room-temp bottled water for set breaks, to pull up house lights. Behind heavy velvet curtains, separated from the frenzied pace of the show, Alex unscrewed the cover of a moving light to expose the core: circuit boards and capacitors, motors connected to color wheels. Deep bass, feedback, and the

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Now printed in a
second edition

Four women working backstage on a rock tour each come to terms with being a woman in a male-dominated industry. When Alex Evans, a thirty-six-year-old touring electrician, is implicated in an accident involving the female pop star she works for, she and three other women on tour rent a house together in Tuscany.

While the tour regroups, confessions are made, secrets are spilled: the guitar tech conceals a forbidden love, the production assistant’s ambition knows no limits, and the personal assistant battles mental issues.

Through arguments and accidents, combating drug use and religion, the women help each other look back on the choices they’ve made, eventually buoying each other, offering up strength to face tough decisions ahead.