By The Sea, Book One: Tess
by Stockenberg, Antoinette
BY THE SEA is a four-book series that sweeps from the Gilded Age through the Roaring Twenties and then to the Great Depression, culminating a century later in Newport, RI, wealthy and alluring City by the Sea. Book One is the tale of Tess Moran, a beautiful Irish housemaid in one of the Newport mansions who makes a dark bargain with a man of commanding wealth and falls in love in the bargain.