A Race to Splendor by Ciji Ware6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Julia Morgan, the first woman to graduate from the University of California in engineering and the first woman to graduate from Paris’s Ecole des Beaux-Arts, designed and provided oversight for the reconstruction of the Fairmont Hotel after the earthquake nearly destroyed it. First, she designs her heroine as a doppelgänger to a genuine historic figure. Ware, however, tweaks the romance formula in several important ways. Such is the fun in reading Ciji Ware’s novel about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the year of rebuilding that followed that city’s devastation. After many flirtations and flagrant misunderstandings, after events conspire to throw them together and then tear them apart, their love prevails and (the reader assumes) the couple lives happily ever after. ![]() Set at some crucial moment in the past, the story centers on a vulnerable woman who is unfortunately attracted to a rakish, inappropriate man. Historical romances tend to follow a predictable formula. ![]()
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