Woman Of Yesterday

Anna Grey has lived her entire life in a small Vermont village, the dutiful daughter of a clergyman, content in her circumscribed world of church socials and quiet mornings. But when she travels to the city to care for a sick woman, everything she thought she knew begins to shift. The city offers her not just its cultured drawing rooms and gaslit streets, but a man who sees her differently than the modest minister's daughter she's always been. As desire and ambition pull her toward a life her father would never sanction, Anna faces an impossible choice: return to the respectable certainties of yesterday, or surrender to a future she cannot name. Caroline Atwater Mason captures the precise moment when a woman's world expands beyond what she was raised to want, and the ache of wanting it anyway.