The Lost Jewels

From the author of The Song of the Jade Lily comes a thrilling story of a family secret that leads to a legendary treasure. Why would someone bury a bucket of precious jewels and gemstones and never return? Present Day. When respected American jewelry historian,Kate Kirbyreceives a call about the Cheapside jewelsshe knows she’s on the brink of the experience of a lifetime. But the trip to London forces Kate to explore secrets that have long been buried by her own family. Back in BostonKate has uncovered a series of sketches in her great-grandmother’s papers linking her suffragette great-grandmother Essie to the Cheapside collection. Could these sketches hold the key to Essie’s secret life in Edwardian London? In the summer of 1912impoverished Irish immigrant Essie Murphy happens to be visiting her brother when a workman’s pickaxe strikes through the floor of an old tenement house in Cheapsidenear St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. The workmen uncover a stash of treasure–from Ottoman pendants to Elizabethan and Jacobean gems–and then the finds disappear again! Could these jewels–one in particular–change the fortunes of Essie and her sisters? Together with photographer Marcus HoltKate Kirby chases the history of the Cheapside gems and jewelsespecially the story of a small diamond champlev├⌐ enamel ring. Sooneverything Kate believes about her familygemologyand herself will be threatened. Based on a fascinating true storyThe Lost Jewels is a riveting historical fiction novel that will captivate readers from the beginning to the unforgettablesurprising end.