The Magnolia Palace

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Fiona Davis,New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenuereturns with a tantalizing novel about the secretsbetrayaland murder within one of New York City’s most impressive Gilded Age mansions. Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter’s life has completely fallen apart. For the past six yearsunder the moniker AngelicaLillian was one of the most sought-after artists’ models in New York Citywith statues based on her figure gracing landmarks from the Plaza Hotel to the Brooklyn Bridge. But with her mother gonea grieving Lillian is rudderless and desperateΓÇöthe 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 mansionΓÇöa building thatironicallybears her own visageΓÇöLillian jumps at the chance. But the longer she works as a private secretary to the imperious and demanding Helen Frickthe daughter and heiress of industrialist and art patron Henry Clay Frickthe more deeply her life gets intertwined with that of the familyΓÇöpulling her into a tangled web of romantic trystsstolen jewelsand family drama that runs so deepthe stakes just may be life or death. Nearly fifty years latermod English model Veronica Weber has her own chance to make her careerΓÇöand with itearn the money she needs to support her family back homeΓÇöwithin the walls of the former Frick residencenow converted into one of New York City’s most impressive museums. But when sheΓÇöalong with a charming intern/budding art curator named JoshuaΓÇöis dismissed from the Vogue shoot taking place at the Frick Collectionshe 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 woesbut could finally reveal the truth behind a decades-old murder in the infamous Frick family.