Firebrands

Name: Firebrands
SKU: 10444
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by Vicky OliverHistria Fiction

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is available for preorder. It will ship on or before its release date of October 13, 2026. A radiant feminist standout polished with humor, heat, and sharp edges New York is crackling with unrest, ambition, and the scent of revolution.

Expected: October 13, 2026

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ISBN: 9781592117642
Format: Softbound
Published: 2026-10-13

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About This Book

Firebrands by Vicky Oliver is available for preorder. It will ship on or before its release date of October 13, 2026.

A radiant feminist standout polished with humor, heat, and sharp edges

New York is crackling with unrest, ambition, and the scent of revolution. Helena James—suffragist, speaker, and trouble magnet—stands at the heart of it all, rallying crowds and rattling politicians. But when her beloved sister Summer falls for Derrick Dupré, a mysterious tycoon with a velvet smile and a hidden past, Helena’s fight for justice gets personal.

Brimming with twisty suspense, romance, forbidden lust, and humor, Firebrands explores the lighter side of the feminist movement, the darker side of industrialization, and the loving but confounding side of sisterhood. Sure to appeal to fans of the HBO series The Gilded Age, Firebrands is thematically tied to Gilded Mountain, with its push for labor rights, equality, and freedom.

At a time when women had few choices, Firebrands tells a story as relevant today as it was over 100 years ago.

About the Author

Vicky Oliver — Vicky Oliver graduated from Brown University with a double major in English Honors and Political Science and received her Master in Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Creative Writing [Fiction] from the New School in 2022. She has published six nonfiction books covering career topics, three at Sourcebooks and three at Skyhorse, including 301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions (Sourcebooks), which sold almost 100,000 copies. Vicky Oliver has also published 15 personal narrative essays (four in anthologies) and serves as the Nonfiction Editor as well as an Art Editor at LIT magazine, the journal of the New School’s MFA program. She co-hosts the Resilient Women podcast for Relatable Media. Firebrands (Histria Books, 2026), a Gilded-Age style tale of morals versus money, was a 2025 Writers’ League of Texas Finalist for Historical Fiction and a 2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Finalist for Best Historical Fiction. Ancestors on both sides of Vicky Oliver’s family lived in Manhattan during the time the novel takes place.