First published 2008
Seth Way arrives at New Harmony, the utopian community founded by Robert Owen in Indiana during the 1820s. The young man finds himself caught between the radical social experiments of this new world and his growing feelings for a woman whose own beliefs challenge everything he thought he knew about love and society. As the community struggles with the practical realities of creating a perfect society, Seth must choose between the safety of conventional life and the uncertain promise of revolutionary change. The romance unfolds against the backdrop of one of America's most ambitious social experiments, where free love, communal property, and educational reform collide with human nature. Seth discovers that matters of the heart prove just as complicated as the community's lofty ideals about reshaping civilization itself.
Genres: romance, american-fiction, historical-fiction, 19th-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, social-change
Setting: Indiana, New Harmony
Period: 1820s
432 pages · Paperback · Read Books