Orphaned as an infant, Oklahoma heiress Adelaide Fitzgerald has enjoyed every advantage. She possesses a unique gift for music and has excelled on the Italian opera stage. As a philanthropist, she’s adored from America to Europe.
But Miss Adelaide is about to awaken in a 1918 nightmare.
When the “Great War” and the “Great Influenza” knock, Adelaide finds her uninvited guests more than unwelcome. They threaten her life and alter her identity and purpose.
Snatched from a quiet life in an Italian villa, Miss Adelaide is thrust into conflicts others have created. What battle scars will she sustain? And where will love lead her?
In The Awakening of Miss Adelaide, war and peace, laughter and heartache, love and loss come together to ignite a fresh fire that reveals one woman’s hidden needs and potentials.
What will gaining a fresh understanding of herself require of the Angel of the Opera?
The Awakening of Miss Adelaide: A story of one life at the close of the Great War in Italy and the battles fought in the hearts of Adelaide Fitzgerald and Brady Duvall
Other characters:
Dahlia Evans https://www.pinterest.com/pin/ASAFsq5X9gL1IRIOjGerSuonDK0EwFDvFLHKZfz6Ssj6HohZimrYIgY/ https://www.pinterest.com/pin/ASAFsq5X9gL1IRIOjGerSuonDK0EwFDvFLHKZfz6Ssj6HohZimrYIgY/ https://www.pinterest.com/pin/ASAFsq5X9gL1IRIOjGerSuonDK0EwFDvFLHKZfz6Ssj6HohZimrYIgY/ |
Ebony Evans http://e31b2fd8746704600c485eb5ce49daae_vintageimages.org |
Julia Jane Evans |
Corporal Stanley Sturgeon reminiscent of U.S Army Sgt. Alvin York |
Emmeline Ashbury reminiscent of suffragist Dora Lewis |
True Historical Characters
Robert Owen |
Eleanor Brackenridge |