During a blistering 1903 summer, Portland’s steam laundry women are working ten hellish hours a day. Exhausted and ill, they demand a nine hour workday. Sage Adair, and his mother, Mae, join their fight until the women begin disappearing. Desperately searching for the missing women, Sage and Mae face grave danger midst suffragettes, prostitutes, social workers, white slavers. arsonists and heartless bosses. Inspired by actual historical events, this is the sixth book in the award-winning Sage Adair mystery series.
This series presents stories with a progressive viewpoint on history, detailing the ways in which ordinary people caused extraordinary social and economic changes. Its setting is the very early 1900’s, during a time when wealth and power was concentrated in the hands of a few, creating a popular uprising among ordinary citizens that resulted in a better United States and world. Each book in the series offers historical notes which identify the actual facts upon which that particular story is built.
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