It hasn’t even hit bookstore shelves yet, and Therese Anne Fowler’s forthcoming novel, A Well Behaved Woman is already slated for Sony Pictures Television for an upcoming series!  The novel, which follows iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded-Age New York, will be published in October by St. Martin’s Press.

With a nod to Jane Austen and Edith Wharton,  A Well-Behaved Woman paints a glittering world of enormous wealth contrasted against desperate poverty, of social ambition and social scorn, of friendship and betrayal, and an unforgettable story of a remarkable woman. Meet Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont, living proof that history is made by those who know the rules—and how to break them.