The Heiress of Pittsburgh

Attorney Shawn Rossi could have earned a fortune.

He could have worked at big firms in booming cities and sunnier climes.

Instead, he returned to Pittsburgh, the struggling steel town of his youth -- to help regular people.

And now he's doubting his life decisions.

His wife has just died and his teenage daughters are getting piercings and staying out all night. His professional life is equally in shambles: He's handling an unwinnable estate contest and representing the one person he vowed never to get near again: his ex-college flame, Marjorie.

Even for Rossi, this case appears hopeless.

A coffin shows up with the wrong corpse.

Nuns from a secretive home for unwed mothers can't break their vows of silence to testify.

The family is about to lose everything.

New York Times bestselling author Ken Gormley delivers a powerful drama about the decent, largely-forgotten qualities that once were the bedrock of simple towns whose inhabitants built America. The Heiress of Pittsburgh reawakens hope that the precious qualities of past generations can be reimagined to create a dazzling new future. But only if a few courageous people are willing to boldly redefine success.

Author: Ken Gormley
Publisher: Milford House Press
Published: 10/12/2021
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9781620065242

About the Author
Gormley, Ken: - "Ken Gormley is president of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. A lawyer, constitutional scholar, and author, Gormley's work has earned him national and international acclaim. His book "The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr" (Crown 2010) was a New York Times bestseller and was selected as one of the top non-fiction books of the year by the New York Times and Washington Post. Gormley's first book, "Archibald Cox: Conscience of a Nation" (Addison-Wesley 1997), won multiple book awards.Earlier in his writing career, Gormley received the first Rolling Stone magazine college journalism award for feature writing, chronicling adventures including setting a Guinness World Record in brick carrying and wrestling a bear."The Heiress of Pittsburgh" is Gormley's first work of fiction. Over thirty years in the making, it speaks to a subject that is universally relevant. A love story about people, places, and simple virtues that flourished in working-class towns and ordinary communities that once built America, this beautifully crafted novel provides hope that precious qualities of the past can be recast to create a rich new future; but only if success is boldly redefined.Gormley has appeared on NBC's Today Show, MSNBC's Morning Joe, NPR's Fresh Air, multiple PBS and BBC documentaries, and hundreds of television and radio shows in the United States and worldwide. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The LA Times, Politico, HuffPost, and numerous other publications. The former mayor of his town in Forest Hills, Pennsylvania - a small community outside Pittsburgh - he lives there with his wife and family."