The Engineer's Wife is based on the true story of Emily Warren Roebling, whose life was transformed when she was asked to complete her husband's magnum opus—the Brooklyn Bridge, a project of unthinkable scale. In this historical fiction novel, she journeys into the bowels of the East River, suffragette riots, the halls of Manhattan's elite, and the heady, freewheeling temptations of her new friend P.T. Barnum. And yes, she completes the bridge and becomes the first person to walk across it.