Scandal Sisters
Kimberly Sheeter
Type: ARC
Genre: Historical fiction, literary
Word count: 81,100
Warnings: Graphic sexual content
Scandal Sisters sweeps from Gilded Age parlors to the glittering chaos of Roaring Twenties New York, where two ambitious sisters chase love, legacy, and a life on their own terms. As seductions lead to courtroom drama and headlines, they become icons of infamy in a city that worships reinvention—and punishes women who dare too much.
What’s this?
Not your mother’s Gilded Age novel.
Scandal Sisters follows Catherine and Charlotte Poillon across thirty years of seduction, spectacle, and survival in New York City—from gaslit parlors to gin-soaked speakeasies, from courtroom benches to newspaper headlines. Raised in the shadow of loss, the sisters rise together—defiant, dazzling, and dangerously underestimated.
They charm the salons of pre-war Paris, endure the workhouse on Blackwell’s Island, and outmaneuver the whisper campaigns of high society. Witty, ambitious, and complicated, the Poillons learn to turn scandal into currency—and headlines into power. At the heart of it all is a bond forged in fire and fiercely protected: the strong but stormy love between two women who refused to disappear. Their story isn’t always pretty. But it’s unforgettable.
Inspired by actual headlines and long-buried truths, Scandal Sisters is a razor-edged tale of fame, betrayal, and sisterhood in a city that feeds on spectacle. History may have forgotten them—but they kept receipts.
Kim Sheeter is a Florida-based writer who spent most of 2024 commuting, via imagination, to Gilded Age New York and pre-war Paris, then through the 1920s, on the trail of two sisters who dominated headlines from the early 1900s through the 1920s. This novel brings together her love of these times and places, a dash of true crime, her fascination with the colorful personalities of the era and her appreciation for a snarky comeback delivered from behind a fan or cocktail glass.
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