The Street of Seven Stars
1914
Harmony Wells came to Vienna to become a concert violinist. What she found was a house on the Street of Seven Stars, where the music stopped and something far more dangerous began to play. In this crumbling mansion thick with secrets, three figures orbit the young American: a sophisticated woman with hidden motives, a charming man whose smile doesn't reach his eyes, and a handsome doctor whose reckless charm masks something darker. As Harmony navigates the foreign city where she came to chase her dreams, she discovers that the greatest threat to her future may not be failing as a musician but trusting the wrong person in a city full of strangers. Rinehart weaves a tale of artistic aspiration, romantic tension, and mounting dread into a story that moves as gracefully as a waltz before it stumbles into something sinister. For readers who crave early twentieth-century fiction that combines the emotional stakes of romance with the pulse of a slow-burn thriller, this novel delivers both heartbreak and suspense in equal measure.
