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Amanda Malcom (or is she really Amanda Grant?) escapes to Boston after running away from a failed marriage. She brings with her a strange and delightful wooden box that she found washed up on the shore of Cape Cod. But opening that box has proven to be as challenging as untangling the multiple layers of her own life. Amanda finds sanctuary with a kindly older couple as she tries to reestablish herself in the city, remaining blissfully unaware that the man she left behind is trying to find her.At a raucous July 4th celebration, Amanda meets Jeb Thomas, a powerful but secretive labor organizer who travels where he wants and remains beholden to no city. For all his charm, Jeb does not seem to be her type. But as the ghosts of her past close in, he may be her only escape.America in the 1890s isn't a welcoming place for a separated woman, especially one who grew up in the poorest part of town. Some see her as a victim. Some as a predator. What she wants them to see is a woman who longs for a quiet normal life, even as past failures conspire to bring her down.

Book one of the sprawling Puzzle Box Chronicles.Victor Marius, an inspired scientist and budding entrepreneur, is lost in a shipwreck off the coast of Cape Cod in the summer of 1891. But before he disappears beneath the waves he manages to release a strange box that he hopes will protect his legacy. Amanda Malcom, a young woman enduring a troubled marriage, is about to make a discovery that will lead her on a dangerous odyssey - one that takes her across the country, and into the heart of a rapidly changing America. Along the way, she meets Plains Indians, ex-slaves, riverboat charlatans, and secretive workers who champion the U.S. labor movement. At a time when electric lighting is spreading across the country like a wave, she also meets inspired engineers and Montana miners who dig deep to feed the country's insatiable demand for copper. Amanda has survived many things in her short life, but it's not clear if she will be able to survive the first year of the last decade of the 19th century.

After a tragedy at sea in the summer of 1891, a once-bold scientist lingers on - only a fragment of his former self. Rather than return to his demanding work, he spends his time stringing wires and bringing electricity to the masses of Boston. What he doesn't know is that his life and words have provided great inspiration to a woman he's never met. Amanda Grant, who is on the run from an unfair attempted murder charge, finds herself strangely drawn to union organizer Jeb Thomas, but his presence only turns her life upside down. First, a strange box that she salvaged from the sea is stolen from her, then she is kicked out of the house where she found temporary sanctuary.With few other options she boards a train heading for Chicago and beyond. She's never left New England before, but she knows this escape will either bring her closer to Jeb, or she will escape yet again, maybe to find a distant home in the West.Those Who Wander takes a tour through private luxury train cars and seedy back alleys. Even the sparks created by a "War of the Currents" can't fully illuminate their path

Amanda Malcom, on the run from her estranged husband and the Boston police, has stood by her friend and lover Jeb Thomas through some challenging times. But their arrangement grows increasingly strained as they head west. When they reach the rugged copper mines of Montana, she comes face to face with prejudice, violence and decadence. It quickly sinks in that she may have made a terrible choice.In Boston, aging Confederate soldier Devlin Richards has fallen into a pattern of petty crime and subtle revenge against the people he blames for the downfall of his once great family. But when he takes on a beautiful new partner, the success of his operation starts to grow.Meanwhile, a reclusive scientist who survived deadly shipwreck is growing strong again and starting to rejoin the world. But his new life of drugs, obsessive work and occasional brawling threatens to undue his progress.This fourth book of the sprawling Puzzle Box Chronicles is a cross-country journey of fear and hope set in the early 1890s. Electrical and telephone wires are bringing young America closer together. But other forces seem determined to pull things apart, leaving the world empty and desolate.