In THE QUEEN'S WAR Jeanne Mackin transports the reader to the royal court of Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, at Poitiers. Cast off by her husband, who now shares his bed with his young mistress, Rosamonde, Eleanor presides over her court of love. A...
The year is 1799. It is a time of dreams and a time of conquest, a time of discovery, and a time of greed.... Illustrator Marguerite Verdier has left her charming philanderer of a husband behind and joined Napoleon Bonaparte on an expedition to C...
When Helen West is contracted to write a definitive essay on Maggie Fox, the founder of American Spiritualism, she begins to wonder if departed spirits do indeed return to comfort their loved ones. After all, Maggie Fox made a living by convincing pe...
From Paris in the 1920s to London after the Blitz, two women find that a secret from their past reverberates through years of joy and sorrow.... As recovery from World War II begins, expat American Nora Tours travels from her home in southern Fran...
From the author of The Beautiful American comes a richly imagined, beautifully written novel about historical figure Beatrix Farrand, one of the first female landscape architects. Raised among wealth and privilege during America’s fabled Gilded...
An American woman becomes entangled in the intense rivalry between iconic fashion designers Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli in this captivating novel from the acclaimed author of The Beautiful American. Paris, 1938. Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiapar...
“A complex, absorbing portrait” -- PeopleA tangled and vivid portrait of the women caught in Picasso’s charismatic orbit through the affairs, the scandals, and the art -- only this time, they hold the brush. The women of Picasso’s life are gl...