THE BOOKS
Forgetting to Remember
Synopsis | Excerpt | PraiseStriving to live a dual life and dangerously straddling two time periods, Jeannine fights to protect her career and her father from scandal in the present while desperately trying to save her lover’s life in the past.
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The Jeweler of Stolen Dreams
Synopsis | Excerpt | PraiseA captivating tale of two passionate women separated by decades but united by a shared vision. One, the famous jeweler Suzanne Belperron, fighting to protect her company and rescue the man she loves. The other, a young auctioneer whose exceptional gifts reveal a secret that endangers her very life.
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The Last Tiara
Synopsis | Excerpt | PraiseTold in alternating points of view, the stories of the two young women unfurl as each struggles to find their way during two separate wars. In 1915, young Sofiya Petrovitch, favorite of the royal household and best friend of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, tends to wounded soldiers in a makeshift hospital within the grounds of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg and finds the love of her life. In 1948 New York, Isobelle Moon works to break through the rampant sexism of the age as one of very few women working in a male-dominated profession and discovers far more about love and family than she ever hoped for.
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Cartier's Hope
Synopsis | Excerpt | PraiseNew York, 1910: A city of extravagant balls in Fifth Avenue mansions and poor immigrants crammed into crumbling Lower East Side tenements. A city where the suffrage movement is growing stronger every day but most women reporters are still delegated to the fashion and lifestyle pages. But Vera Garland is set on making her mark in a man's world of serious journalism.
Shortly after the world-famous Hope Diamond is acquired for a record sum, Vera begins investigating rumors about schemes by its new owner, jeweler Pierre Cartier, to manipulate its value. Vera is determined to find the truth behind the notorious diamond and its legendary curseseven better when the expose puts her in the same orbit as a magazine publisher whose blackmailing schemes led to the death of her beloved father.
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Tiffany Blues
Synopsis | Excerpt | PraiseTwenty-four-year-old Jenny Bell is one of a dozen burgeoning artists invited to Louis Comfort Tiffany's prestigious artists' colony. Gifted and determined, Jenny vows to avoid distractions and romantic entanglements and take full advantage of the many wonders to be found at Laurelton Hall.
Jenny pushes her demons aside. But between stolen kisses and stolen jewels the champagne flows and the jazz plays on until one moonless night when Jenny's past and present are thrown together in a desperate moment that will threaten her promising future, her love, her friendships, and her very life.
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Selected by Indie Booksellers for the Indie Next List.