From This Moment Books in Order

The From This Moment books revolve around creativity, technology, and the risky business of chasing big dreams at the end of the nineteenth century. At the center is Romulus White, the charming, often exasperating editor of a Boston scientific magazine who collects talented people the way other men collect rare stamps.

The prequel novella Summer of Dreams reaches back a decade to follow Evelyn White, the daughter of a powerful army general, and Clyde Brixton, a gifted but rule-breaking West Point cadet. Evelyn has sworn never to marry a man in uniform and longs for a college education instead. Clyde is poised for a brilliant career designing electrical systems for the Army, yet constantly puts that future at risk with his adventures. Their summer together in upstate New York, complete with early experiments in electrical power and worry over a troubled friend, sets the stage for the mix of ambition and heart that drives the series.

In the novel From This Moment, Romulus finally manages to recruit Stella West, the famous illustrator he has been trying to lure to his magazine for years. When she abruptly leaves her London career and turns up in Boston, however, she is not interested in art at all. Stella is secretly investigating the suspicious death of her sister, who worked at City Hall during the construction of Boston's first subway. Romulus, with his web of social and political connections, becomes the reluctant partner she needs to pry open doors.

The partnership between Romulus and Stella plays out against a city in flux, where underground tunnels, electric lights, and new transit systems promise convenience but also introduce fresh opportunities for corruption. The magazine office becomes a hub where engineers, investors, and artists intersect. As the two dig deeper into municipal politics and the risks of innovation, they have to untangle not just a cover up but their own conflicting ideas about independence, loyalty, and what a shared life might look like.

Taken together, the novella and novel highlight different sides of the same world. Summer of Dreams shows the promise and cost of cutting edge engineering in its earliest days and introduces characters who will still be feeling the effects of those choices a decade later. From This Moment drops readers into a fully realized Boston where that promise has started to reshape everyday life, for better and worse.

For readers who enjoy romances built around work, invention, and a dash of danger, the From This Moment stories offer a focused slice of Gilded Age Boston where careers, friendships, and love are all on the line.