[This book cl ub meets every second Tuesday of the month at 7 pm]
\nJoin us to dis cuss \;The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis:\n
"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 moni ker Angelica\, Lillian was one of the most sought-after artists' models in New York City\, with statues based on her figure gracing landmarks from t he Plaza Hotel to the Brooklyn Bridge. But with her mother gone\, a grievi ng Lillian is rudderless and desperate&mdash\;the work has dried up and a looming scandal has left her entirely without a safe haven. So when she st umbles upon an employment opportunity at the Frick mansion&mdash\;a buildi ng that\, ironically\, bears her own visage&mdash\;Lillian jumps at the ch ance. 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&mdash\;pulling her into a tangled web of romantic tryst s\, stolen jewels\, and family drama that runs so deep\, the stakes just m ay be life or death.
\nNearly fifty yea rs later\, mod English model Veronica Weber has her own chance to make her career&mdash\;and with it\, earn the money she needs to support her famil y back home&mdash\;within the walls of the former Frick residence\, now co nverted into one of New York City's most impressive museums. But when she& mdash\;along with a charming intern/budding art curator named Joshua&mdash \;is dismissed from the \;Vogue \;shoot taking place at the Frick Collection\, she chances upon a series of hidden messages in the museum: m essages 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 de cades-old murder in the infamous Frick family."
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