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From your best-selling and highly acclaimed writer of the "page-turning story" (Collection Journal) Mrs. Poe comes a fictionalized imagining of the personal life of America's most iconic writer: Tag Twain. In March of 1909, Tag Twain cheerfully blessed the wedding of his private secretary, Isabel V. Lyon, and his business manager, Ralph Ashcroft. A month later he fired both. He proceeded to write a ferocious 429-web page rant about the couple, getting in touch with Isabel "a liar, a forger, a thief, a hypocrite, a drunkard, a sneak, a humbug, a traitor, a conspirator, a filthy-minded and salacious slut pining for seduction". Twain and his little girl, Clara Clemens, then slandered Isabel in the magazines, erasing her almost seven years of devoted service to their family. How performed Lyon go from being the beloved secretary who ran Twain's life to a female he was determined to destroy? In Twain's End, Lynn Cullen reimagines the tangled human relationships between Twain, Lyon, and Ashcroft as well as the little-known love triangle between Helen Keller; her professor, Anne Sullivan Macy; and Anne's partner, John Macy, which involves light during their visit to Twain's Connecticut home in 1909. Enhance the party a furious Clara Clemens, smarting from her own failed romance, and carefully placed veneers shatter. Predicated on Isabel Lyon's extant diary, Twain's writings and words, and happenings in Twain's boyhood that may have improved his ability to love, Twain's End explores this real-life story of doomed love.
