Gangs of New York meets The Age of Innocence as a society architect in 1880s Manhattan is forced to join a gritty crime ring, by the author of the bestselling The Paris Architect. John Cross values little more than his flawless professional reputation and his family's status among the elite, but when Cross's oldest son, George, racks up an unfathomable gambling debt, Cross gets pulled into the seedy underbelly of the city in an attempt to save his family's reputation--and their lives. An architect by profession, Charles Belfoure has published several architectural histories, one of which won a Graham Foundation Grant for architectural research. He graduated from the Pratt Institute and Columbia University, and he taught at Pratt as well as at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. His area of specialty is historic preservation. He has been a freelance writer for The Baltimore Sun and The New York Times. He lives in Maryland. For more information, visit www.theparisarchitect.com. Charles Belfoure is the internationally bestselling author of The Paris Architect. An architect by profession, he has written several architectural histories and his area of specialty is historic preservation. He graduated from the Pratt Institute and Columbia University, and has been a freelance writer for the Baltimore Sun and The New York Times. He lives in Maryland. For more information, visit www.theparisarchitect.com.
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Charles Belfoure is an author and architect who lives in Westminster, Maryland. A graduate of the Pratt Institute and Columbia University, his practice is in historic preservation working as both an architect and historic preservation consultant with a specialty in historic tax credit consulting. He was the recipient of a grant from the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation and the Graham Foundation, and his books have won awards from the Maryland Historical Trust.
Jeff Woodman is an actor and narrator. He is a winner of the prestigious Audie Award and a six-time finalist. He has received twenty Earphones Awards and was named the 2008 Best Voice in Fiction & Classics, as well as one of the Fifty Greatest Voices of the Century by AudioFile magazine. As an actor, he originated the title role in Tennessee Williams’ The Notebook of Trigorin and won the S. F. Critics’ Circle Award for his performance in An Ideal Husband. In addition to numerous theater credits on and off Broadway, his television work includes Sex and the City, Law & Order, and Cosby.