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While the City Sleeps
Christian romance
While the City Sleeps
Book 1 of the Women of Midtown series
352 pages · First published 2024
Dentist Katherine Schneider’s ordinary life in 1913 New York changes when a patient under laughing gas reveals details suggesting a deadly criminal plot. She turns to police lieutenant Jonathan Birch, the man she has admired from afar, unaware that he has loved her for years while hiding a past he believes would make her reject him. Their nighttime investigation leads through a city alive with both modern possibility and organized danger as they try to understand the conspiracy before Katherine becomes its next victim. The first Women of Midtown novel combines historical suspense, romance, and New York after dark with two people whose secrets become increasingly difficult to separate from the case.
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Violence, weapons, and peril · Mild romantic content, including kissing
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