My New Book: The Unforgettable Miss Baldwin – Allie Baldwin lives with her family across the street from New York’s Central Park. She is a suffragette!16th May 1911: British suffragette Charlotte Despard (1844 – 1939) (wearing a white waistcoat) heads a march of the National Federation of Women Workers through Bermondsey in South London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
It’s hard to think that your summer days are coming to a close. Don’t put away those bathing suits, sandals and shorts yet. I’m not talking about heatwaves. But have you noticed that school supplies are on the shelves in the stores? Yet still to come are those sweltering temperatures threatening to melt the hardiest, and let’s not forget Indian Summer in October. But before the rush of real-life overshadows those fun lazy days there’s still time to read a good book. Contemporary author Kristan Higgins new book, Life and Other Inconveniences, has just hit the shelves. It’s a must-read, in fact, any of Higgins’ books are must-reads.
My new book, The Unforgettable Miss Baldwin, will be on the shelves after Labor Day when your children are busy back in school and life becomes ordered with thoughts of upcoming holidays. But there still is time in-between to sit back and enjoy a good book brimming with ideas for a brighter future. My young suffragette fights for the vote putting herself in harm’s way until a handsome detective is hired as her guard in this historical romance.
You can pre-order, “The Unforgettable Miss Baldwin,” now using the links below and begin reading on Tuesday, September 10, 2019, and then please post a review on Amazon.
After the links provided here for your convenience, there’s an excerpt for you to get a flavor of my brave suffragette and her dreamy detective.
In this excerpt, Allie Baldwin, writer, keeps her appointment to interview Detective Peter Harrison . . .
The mud-spattered conveyance rose and fell in rhythm with the horse’s hooves clip-clopping over the cobblestones. The jostling never bothered Peter. Today, he was eager to pick up Miss Baldwin for their upcoming meeting and to grab a morning paper. After a rainy night, the sun squeezed through the gray clouds. Long shadows blanketed the Fifth Avenue mansions, the places, and palaces of the people he had dined with and protected. Peter flicked open his pocket watch. It was ten minutes before eight, his thumb smoothed over the familiar engraving, Acta Non-Verba. It was a gift from father to son five years ago to celebrate him becoming the president of Harrison Detective Agency.
Passing the torch from father to son was the transition that signified his father’s shift. He became a better husband to his second wife and a better father to Peter’s younger half-sisters.
He returned the timepiece to the vest pocket of his tailored, gray-striped day coat and fiddled with the knot of his ascot making sure it was straight. The driver pulled the carriage up to the Sentinel building, the horses stomping on the stones and whinnying their arrival.
Miss Baldwin waved to him from the top of the stairs, tossing her red locks over her shoulder. Her lips lifted at the corners, his breath caught. The air around her seemed to glow.
Peter opened the carriage door and stepped down, “Good morning, Miss Baldwin,” he said climbing the stairs. His gaze traveled from the hem of her skirt to the short-buttoned jacket accentuating her tiny waist, her hat’s green feather and back to the diamond dog brooch on her lapel. She had a morning paper in hand and a smile on her face. “What’s this, Miss Baldwin?” “Latest news, my article made the early edition.” “Did it now? Congratulations! Mind if I have a look when we get into the carriage?” “Mind? Not at all, it’s earmarked for you,” Allie said. “When I stepped out of the coach, I couldn’t help noticing the unusual dog brooch on your lapel.” “Thank you. It belonged to my grandmother,” she said as she looped her arm into his and they descended. His face heated at her touch. “It was made in Russia. There’s an inscription on the back.” “What does it say?” He couldn’t help but smile at Allie’s mischievous gleam in her eyes. “You won’t believe me.” “Try me.” Translated it says, “Act & Say Naught.” He chuckled, “You’re right. I don’t believe you.” “It’s a funny coincidence, isn’t it? In the old days’ folks all thought alike,” she giggled. “Wait a minute. My father’s still young,” Peter said. They grinned at each other like they had just played a piano duet and the listeners gave them a standing ovation. “The story goes, my grandmother was courted by a young prince before she was married. The brooch was a gift from the prince.”
“What happened to the prince?”
“His parents forbid him to marry my grandmother because she was a commoner. I completely disagree with that as my grandmother is a most uncommon woman.” “Uncommonness runs in the family,” Peter said. She blushed as he handed her into the carriage. To be continued . . .
A review can be posted on Amazon on Tuesday, September 10, 2019, and afterward going forward. Pre-Order now for your convenience.
And remember, for every pre-order purchased an educational donation will be made to the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum in Norwalk, Connecticut, a historic National Landmark built just after the Civil war and several years before Allie Baldwin and Peter Harrison were born. You can help to preserve history! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VRVK3KJ (USA)
*Gilded Age Heiresses: The Unforgettable Miss Baldwin (She lives across from Central Park, spends lots of time there and that’s where she and Captyn are in the photo.)
Opposites attract in this historical romance when a young suffragette foregoes the obedience of marriage until a handsome detective is hired to protect her from harm.
Gilded Age Heiresses: Unforgettable Miss Baldwin
“The Unforgettable Miss Baldwin is an intelligent, fast-paced romance, brimming with sensuality and spiced with mystery.” – Sue Grimshaw, Edits by Sue
It’s not that she doesn’t want to marry… Allie Baldwin is a gilded age heiress—also a journalist at the New York Sentinel. She’s tired of writing about the latest fashions for the society column and wants to write something more meaningful. Attending a rally at City Hall, planning to interview some of the speakers at the event, a situation ensues with Allie barely escaping. Enough is enough — to protect Allie from making rash decisions while fighting for freedom, her parents force a security agent upon her; not just any agent, but a dangerous and delectable man…one that taunts her decision never to marry.
He’s not ready for marriage… Peter Harrison, the dashing debonair, runs Harrison’s Detective Agency handed down to him by his father. Much to his chagrin, he finds himself following in his father’s footsteps confirming why he’ll never marry until he’s older — because he’ll never do to his family what his father did to him. But when a gorgeous red-haired vixen runs right into him at an event his agency is working, he can’t help but enjoy the possibilities until she runs away leaving him without a trace. When the publisher of the city’s top newspaper hires him to protect his daughters on a short trip, he never imagined one of the ladies would be just who he was looking for.
But as luck would have it, his job is to keep order–she wants the right to vote… but maybe they can meet halfway—without losing their hearts.
A young woman writer’s confidence is shaken by death threats in this stunning first book of a series from historical romance author, Gail Ingis. Marian Lanouette, author of the Jake Carrington thriller series, hails Ingis’s work, “Solid page-turner, exquisite details painted in every scene.”
**Don’t miss this standalone, Gail’s first book, published in 2015 with Soul Mate Publishing: In author Gail Ingis’s dazzling historical romance debut, Indigo Sky, a young heiress must stay in her abusive marriage… until a handsome artist attempts to shelter her from a life of misery…
About the Author
Gail Ingis is the author of historical romance. As a historian, Ingis vividly describes the historic scenes within the period of her writing.
Her goals in life are simple—to remember to indulge her twelve grandchildren, and their parents, her impossibly amazing and terrific hubby and partner, and to keep writing books for as long as she possibly can, and spend lots of time in Coney Island, on the tennis courts and ballroom dancing. Please visit her online at gailingis.com.
Gail Ingis never thought about writing a book. She’s an artist. It wasn’t until 2009, inspired by Albert Bierstadt’s painting, Domes of Yosemite that once hung in Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum. She wrote Indigo Sky loosely based on the artist’s life. After studying fiction, her romance book was published by Soul Mate Publishing in 2015. Story done, so was she, until the bug bit her again and now she’s about to self publish her new book, Gilded Age Heiresses: The Unforgettable Miss Baldwin. Launch date is Tuesday, September 10, 2019. She writes historical romance, loves history, and gets caught up in the past. “It’s fun and fascinating.”
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Ingis graduated NYSID with a BFA in Interior Architecture and Design and her master’s studies in Architecture and Design Criticism at Parsons New School. She worked in the field and founded a school of Interior Design in 1981, collected national accreditation, then sold the school ten years later. She resides in Connecticut with her retired scientist husband. Currently, she sits on Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum Board of Trustees and serves as the curator of art exhibitions.
Before her debut as an author, she illustrated a book for Deborah Galiley, “Seeking Paradise” on Amazon. As a professional artist, her paintings are extensions of her design illustration work. Gail spent her youth dallying in Coney Island that inspired her paintings of the island. She is a professional member of American Society of Interior Designers (ASID, and member of the Connecticut Chapter of Romance Writers of America. (RWA)
**Gail Ingis’s new book first of a series, Gilded Age Heiresses: The Unforgettable Miss Baldwin will launch Tuesday, September 10, 2019.
Opposites attract in this historical romance when a young suffragette foregoes the obedience of marriage until a handsome detective is hired to protect her from harm.
The importance of REVIEWS: Did you know that the most critical in publishing any book is to get reviews that you post on the day my book will launch, Tuesday, September 10th. Amazon is the most popular 70% of all ebooks is sold on Amazon, so that’s a good choice for posting. That’s how people find you. An author must have a minimum of fifty, one-hundred is even better. So, I’m asking for volunteers for honest reviews and in turn I will give you a FREE copy of my new book, Unforgettable Miss Baldwin when all editing is done. Probably by the end of July. It’s critical, as well, to post your review the day of the launch! Again, Tuesday, September 10th.
I included the back cover copy at the opening of the blog.* Scroll back up and look for the asterisk.*
And then there my debut book from 2015:
“Ingis has crafted a masterpiece in her debut book with the perfect amount of adventure and thrilling romance.” Joy Smith, author of: Green Fire, Seagulls Don’t Eat Worms, Hear Me Roar, and Sea Lust
“A young woman’s faith is shaken by an abusive marriage in this stunning debut from historical romance author, Gail Ingis. Patti Cavaliere, author of Looking for Leo, hails Ingis’s work, “Exquisite details painted in every scene.”
Gail Ingis is the author of historical romance. As a historian, Ingis vividly describes the historic scenes within the period of her writing.
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