A rare book collector in New York City receives a grimoire, a medieval book of black magic; shortly afterward, he is murdered. His daughter, Beatrice O'Connell, believes that the grimoire is connected to the murder and vows to discover how and why. Soon, she realizes that there is a powerful conspir[...]
For artist Faith Cromwell, it is the commission of a lifetime: painting the famed ballroom of an opulent Long Island estate. But her new patron has a macabre fixation on the daughter who was brutally murdered in the house a decade earlier--one so intense that it jeopardizes Faith's own sense of mind[...]
When Jo Slater, one of the grandest of New York's grandes dames and great patron of the arts, befriends a young French countess against the warnings of her friends, she's asking for trouble. But by the time Jo discovers the truth about the mysterious newcomer, it's already too late. Abruptly dethron[...]
Jo Slater, once the grandest of New York's grandes dames, has made a miraculous comeback from the brink of social obscurity--and is living the good life again.While in Barbados, as a guest at the most lavish high-society wedding of the year, Jo is contemplating a romance with a dashing British arist[...]
Faith Cromwellilla, kohta nelikymppisellä vanhallapiialla, on kiehtova ammatti: hän on trompe lâoeil -maalari, joka tekee erehdyttävän elävän näköisiä maalauksia etupäässä sisustuselementeiksi. Nyt hän on saanut kaikkien aikojen tilauksen: rikas longislandilainen leskirouva on pyyt[...]