Sisters of Fortune: A Novel of the Titanic

Written by Anna Lee Huber

Narrated by Emily Sutton-Smith

April, 1912: It's the perfect finale to a Grand Tour of Europe-sailing home on the largest, most luxurious ocean liner ever built. For the Fortune sisters, the voyage offers a chance to reflect on the treasures of the past they've seen and contemplate the futures that await them.

For Alice, there's foreboding mixed with her excitement. A fortune teller in Egypt gave her a dire warning about traveling at sea. And the freedom she has enjoyed on her travels contrasts with her fiance's plans for her return-a cossetted existence she's no longer sure she wants.

Flora is returning to a fiance, a well-to-do banker of whom her parents heartily approve. Another man-charming, exasperating, completely unsuitable-occupies her thoughts, daring her to follow her desires.

Youngest sister Mabel knows her parents arranged this Grand Tour to separate her from a jazz musician. But Mabel has little interest in marrying at all, preferring to explore ideas of suffrage and reform-even if it forces a rift with her family.

Each sister grapples with the choices before her as the grand vessel glides through the Atlantic waters. Until, on an infamous night, fate intervenes, forever altering their lives . . .

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Feb 27, 2024
• ISBN: 9798855515725

Anna Lee Huber

Anna Lee Huber is the Daphne award–winning author of the national bestselling Lady Darby Mysteries and the Verity Kent Mysteries. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she majored in music and minored in psychology. She currently resides with her family and is hard at work on her next novel.

Reviews for Sisters of Fortune

[Jennifer · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The book offered another voice to the Titanic historical fiction. The author does a fine job in detangling what was fact, fiction, and the uncertainty about the tragic voyage. Yes, I recognized many of the most famous stories, but it didn’t away from the telling of this particular vision of events.

One of the criticisms I read and had to agree with was the abundance of characters and keeping them straight. As I was listening to this rather than reading, I couldn’t flip back to the bios given in the beginning. So I actually found online (it wasn’t as easy as I it would be) the list of characters and printed it out and referred to it a number of times until I got familiar with the players in the story.

The other criticism is that I felt that post-rescue and the events that followed was a bit rushed. This could be because the story be there wasn’t much to tell about the sisters.

Overall, I was intrigued and quickly hooked. I also enjoyed the narrator. I think my 4 out of 5 stars is fair