Title: Carnegie's Maid
Author: Marie Benedict
Genre: Historical Fiction, Biographical Fiction
Imagine that you are newly arrived ashore from Ireland and its grim poverty, and someone calls out your name as if they have been expecting you for a custom-made job... Would you take the bait even if you were not the person they were expecting? Young Clara Kelley does answer and is quickly whisked away to Pennsylvania. She has to quickly pretend that she knows how to be a ladies maid, and not only that, a good one for the exacting Mrs. Carnegie, mother of the self-made steel magnate, Andrew Carnegie. The deception seems to be working until Mr. Carnegie develops feelings for Clara Kelley. What will her fate be when the high-society world into which she has moved finds out about who she really is?
- Elizabeth
