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Gilded Girl by Pamela Kelley
4.0
lighthearted fast-paced

Cinderella meets the Gilded Age....this book was a fantastic and engaging one.

Eliza works as a ladies maid in England. She discovers after her mother dies, that her father is a very prominent and rich man in New York. 
She travels there but on the guise of being a niece, not a daughter.

She is met with a wonderful Grandmother and two..not happy to know her..half- sisters.
She learns a bit of her Father's business and is brought into society until an unimaginable tragedy sets off uncertainty and ill will. She must navigate an even more unexpected world.

I liked how kind Eliza was. Her personality was the same whatever her circumstances. She becomes dear friends with her ladies maid, Miriam and a driver of the family, Harry.  Harry helps her keep up her brilliant mind with lovely conversation and things turn to love with a few challenges that they will face head on.