INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of
Fifth Avenue, returns with a tantalizing novel about the secrets,
betrayal, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive
Gilded Age mansions.
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**Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of
1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen
apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was
one of the most sought-after artists' models in New York City, with
statues based on her figure gracing landmarks from the Plaza Hotel to
the Brooklyn Bridge. But with her mother gone, a grieving Lillian is
rudderless and desperate--the work has dried up and a looming scandal
has left her entirely without a safe haven. So when she stumbles upon an
employment opportunity at the Frick mansion--a building that,
ironically, bears her own visage--Lillian jumps at the chance. But the
longer she works as a private secretary to the imperious and demanding
Helen Frick, the daughter and heiress of industrialist and art patron
Henry Clay Frick, the more deeply her life gets intertwined with that of
the family--pulling her into a tangled web of romantic trysts, stolen
jewels, and family drama that runs so deep, the stakes just may be life
or death.
Nearly fifty years later, mod English model Veronica Weber has her own
chance to make her career--and with it, earn the money she needs to
support her family back home--within the walls of the former Frick
residence, now converted into one of New York City's most impressive
museums. But when she--along with a charming intern/budding art curator
named Joshua--is dismissed from the Vogue shoot taking place at the
Frick Collection, she chances upon a series of hidden messages in the
museum: messages that will lead her and Joshua on a hunt that could not
only solve Veronica's financial woes, but could finally reveal the truth
behind a decades-old murder in the infamous Frick family.
