A Woman of Chicago — Kit Prate

In the year 1893, in the midst of the Financial Panic, Chicagoans considered the young and captivating MARY KATHLEEN McQUADE unfit to rule a vast business enterprise. Facing the derision and ruthless competition of men who seek to ruin her family business, Mary Kathleen fights for her self-esteem, confronting the hostile voices of Chicago society. When she discovers that her closest ally, Edward Dennison, has devised a Machiavellian scheme to seize the McQuade wealth, only her fierce determination would restore to Mary McQuade the financial empire that was hers alone.