Will Blood Tell?

Name: Will Blood Tell?
Brand: Robert Bordas
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A 19th century immigrant adventure

By: Robert Bordas

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Paperback | 30 January 2026

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If you are falsely accused of murder, you have to make the best of it.

In 2022, Peter Bodn¡r's DNA test reveals mysterious relatives. He dives into obsessive research to uncover his family's history.

In 1882, a fatal pub fight forces young farmhand Gyuri (George) Bodn¡r to flee his homeland, Upper Hungary. He navigates his way through the cordons of gendarmes, survives the boiler room of an Atlantic-crossing steamer and tricks US immigration to find a new homeland.

For some, this is the Gilded Age, but for newly arrived immigrants there is only bleak darkness: drudgery in coal mines for starvation wages or being on the blacklist and begging for work.

George struggles with the machinations of criminals, a corrupt mine owner, his predatory wife, and the perils of child labor, but he is determined to make a better life for himself and his family. In order to succeed, he has to be willing to make tremendous sacrifices and lie to his own family, leaving behind ancestral mysteries that will wait 140 years to be discovered.

A nineteenth century immigrant adventure about family, love and the unrelenting will to prosper.

The first book in the series "Will Blood Tell?".

Industry Reviews

"A powerful novel of one family's determined fight to build a new life in the brutal industrial underbelly of America's Gilded Age." - Eleanor Swift-Hook, author of the Lord's Legacy historical novel series

"Gilded Lies is an immigrant story, a story of resilience and hope. Robert Bordas creates three-dimensional characters and weaves historical details seamlessly through the plot-from a village in Hungary to the bellows of an Atlantic-crossing steamship to the mines of Pennsylvania and New York City boardrooms-until we feel like we have been there ourselves. Framing the 19th century story is the story of a man looking for his roots-and rediscovering the meaning of family." - A. Engels, author of the historical novel A Fool for an Heir

"A well-written, gripping story of resilience and resourcefulness, exposing the dark side of the American Dream. An enjoyable read." - Katerina Dunne, author of The Medieval Hungary historical novel series

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