{"id":3424,"date":"2024-02-15T16:34:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T16:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2024-02-15T16:34:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T16:34:36","slug":"secrets-of-rose-briar-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3424","title":{"rendered":"Secrets of Rose Briar Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millie Turner is the envy of 1908 New York. She nabbed the catch of her season, marrying devastatingly handsome financier Charles Turner. They\u2019ve moved to Oyster Bay, Long Island, and live in a house Millie inherited, which is now decorated too ostentatiously for her liking\u2014there\u2019s a taxidermied zebra!\u2014but what Charles wants, Charles gets. Millie is nervously but happily hosting a lavish party when suddenly everything changes\u2014she wakes up to a freezing, dark house, with the party over and the guests gone. Nobody will tell her what \u2019s happened, but she slowly learns that after a crime was committed at the party, she took a weeks-long \u201crest cure\u201d\u2014a drug-induced sleep prescribed at her husband\u2019s wishes. Millie has had a terrible upset, they say, and since hysteria \u201ccan lead to immoral behavior &#91;and] make you ungovernable,\u201d there\u2019s no time to waste: she must enter an institution. Thus begins Millie\u2019s fight for her life. The first-person narrative, told from the young woman\u2019s point of view, is both shocking and exciting, moving from grand ballrooms to flophouses and from shady business dealings to the honesty of pure love. A lengthy court battle will keep readers deliciously on edge in James\u2019s (<em>The Woman in the Castello<\/em>, 2023)<strong> shocking and gripping drama.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millie Turner is the envy of 1908 New York. She nabbed the catch of her season, marrying devastatingly handsome financier Charles Turner. They\u2019ve moved to Oyster Bay, Long Island, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[110,54,109,51],"class_list":["post-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-20th-century","tag-historical","tag-romance","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Rose-400x400.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Rose.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}