Fiona Davis\, \;New York Times \;b est-selling author of \;The Lions of Fifth Avenue\, returns with a tan talizing novel about the secrets\, betrayal\, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive Gilded Age mansions.
\nEight months sin ce losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919\, 21-year-old Lil lian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years\, u nder the moniker Angelica\, Lillian was one of the most sought-after artis ts' models in New York City\, with statues based on her figure gracing lan dmarks from the Plaza Hotel to the Brooklyn Bridge. But with her mother go ne\, a grieving Lillian is rudderless and desperate - the work has dried u p and a looming scandal has left her entirely without a safe haven. So whe n she stumbles upon an employment opportunity at the Frick mansion - a bui lding that\, ironically\, bears her own visage - Lillian jumps at the chan ce. But the longer she works as a private secretary to the imperious and d emanding Helen Frick\, the daughter and heiress of industrialist and art p atron Henry Clay Frick\, the more deeply her life gets intertwined with th at of the family - pulling her into a tangled web of romantic trysts\, sto len jewels\, and family drama that runs so deep\, the stakes just may be l ife or death.
\nNearly 50 years later\, mod English model Veronica W eber 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 impressi ve museums. But when she - along with a charming intern/budding art curato r named Joshua - is dismissed from the \;Vogue \;shoot taking plac e at the Frick Collection\, she chances upon a series of hidden messages i n 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 tr uth behind a decades-old murder in the infamous Frick family.
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