With the writing chops of Ian McEwan and the story-craft of Lisa Wingate, Karen Kelly weaves a shattering debut about two intertwined families and the secrets that they buried during the gilded, glory days of Bethlehem, PA.

A young woman arrives at the grand ancestral home of her husband’s family, hoping to fortify her cracking marriage. But what she finds is not what she expected: tragedy haunts the hallways, whispering of heartache and a past she never knew existed.

Inspired by the true titans of the steel-boom era, BETHLEHEM is a story of temptation and regret, a story of secrets and the cost of keeping them, a story of forgiveness. It is the story of two complex women --- thrown together in the name of family --- who, in coming to understand each other, come finally to understand themselves.

Bethlehem
by Karen Kelly

• Publication Date: July 9, 2019
• Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction
• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• ISBN-10: 1250201497
• ISBN-13: 9781250201492