Janie acknowledged Carrie’s greeting with a shy nod.

Janie’s own costume seemed modest in comparison, the garnets set in and around the squared neckline subdued in their opulence, the poor cousin of rubies.Ĭarrie. The men peacocked in tights and short cloaks the women dazzled in silks and velvets woven with gold and sewn with jewels. Her brother’s guests dazzled in garb that would have put a Medici to shame, every breast adorned with diamonds and rubies, every neck hung round with gold chains. Here, everyone glittered, everyone blazed. That backdrop served its own purpose, Janie knew, but once, just once, she wished she could blaze out in a luster of silver and gold.īut not here.

Sometimes, Janie felt like the threads on an old tapestry, blending into the background. And then there are those frightful stories about … oh, Janie! I didn’t see you there.' Carrie Rheinlander’s voice carried along the high, arched ceiling. 'They say he’s bankrupted himself rebuilding the house-all for her, of course. Who were her brother and his wife, really? And why did her brother die with the name George on his lips? Read more Bay’s sister, Janie, forms an unlikely alliance with a reporter to try to uncover the truth, convinced that Bay would never have killed his wife, that it must be a third party, but the more she learns about her brother and his wife, the more everything she thought she knew about them starts to unravel. But then Bayard is found dead with a knife in his chest on the night of their Twelfth Night Ball, Annabelle goes missing, presumed drowned, and the papers go mad. Yes, there are rumors that she’s having an affair with the architect, but rumors are rumors and people will gossip. 'Her best yet.A dark and scintillating tale of betrayal, secrets and a marriage gone wrong that will have readers on the edge of their seats until the final breathtaking twist.'-Pam Jenoff, N ew York Times bestselling author of The Orphan's TaleĪnnabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in New York: he’s the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor house in England, they had a fairytale romance in London, they have three-year-old twins on whom they dote, and he’s recreated her family home on the banks of the Hudson and named it Illyria.

Mystery, murder, mistaken identity, romance-Lauren Willig weaves each strand into a page-turning tapestry.'-Sally Koslow, author of The Widow Waltz 'Brings to life old world New York City and London with all the splendor of two of my favorite novels, The Age of Innocence and The Crimson Petal and the White.

From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig comes The English Wife, a scandalous novel set in the Gilded Age full of family secrets, affairs, and even murder.

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