The invitation / Belinda Alexandra.
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TextPublisher: Sydney, NSW : HarperCollins Publishers, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 407 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780732296452; 0732296455Subject(s): 1800-1899 | Domestic fiction | New York (N.Y.) - Social conditions - 19th century - Fiction | Interpersonal relations -- Fiction | Novel -- English -- Australia -- 21st century -- Texts | Tutors and tutoring - Fiction | Rich people - Fiction | Deception - Fiction | Australian fiction | Tutors and tutoring -- Fiction | Rich people -- Fiction | Deception -- Fiction | Sisters -- Fiction | Australian fiction | Australian fiction | Sisters | Tutors and tutoring | Deception | Rich people | Social conditions | Rich people -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction | Sisters - Fiction | New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction | Social conditions -- 19th century | New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction | New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction | Social conditions -- 19th century | New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction | New York (State) -- New York | New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions | New York (State) | New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Historical fiction | Historical fiction | Historical fiction. | Australian fiction | Domestic fiction. | Australian fiction -- 21st century | Domestic fiction. | Australian fiction | Australian fiction | Australian fiction | Australian fiction | Historical fiction. | Fiction. | Domestic fiction. | Australian fiction. | Historical fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: In Gilded Age New York, money buys everything. What is your price? Sometimes the ties that bind are the most dangerous of all ... Paris, 1899. Emma Lacasse has been estranged from her older sister for nearly twenty years, since Caroline married a wealthy American and left France. So when Emma receives a request from Caroline to meet her, she is intrigued. Caroline invites Emma to visit her in New York, on one condition: Emma must tutor her shy, young niece, Isadora, and help her prepare for her society debut. Caroline lives a life of unimaginable excess and opulence as one of New York's Gilded Age millionaires and Emma is soon immersed in a world of luxury beyond her wildest dreams - a far cry from her bohemian lifestyle as a harpist and writer with her lover, Claude, in Montmartre. Emma hopes for an emotional reunion with her only family, but instead she finds herself in the vice-like grip of her charismatic and manipulative sister, who revels in the machinations of the ultra rich. As Emma begins to question her sister's true motives, a disaster strikes, and New York society is stripped bare - beneath the glittering exterior lies a seething nest of deceit, betrayal, moral corruption ... and perhaps even murder.
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In Gilded Age New York, money buys everything. What is your price? Sometimes the ties that bind are the most dangerous of all ... Paris, 1899. Emma Lacasse has been estranged from her older sister for nearly twenty years, since Caroline married a wealthy American and left France. So when Emma receives a request from Caroline to meet her, she is intrigued. Caroline invites Emma to visit her in New York, on one condition: Emma must tutor her shy, young niece, Isadora, and help her prepare for her society debut. Caroline lives a life of unimaginable excess and opulence as one of New York's Gilded Age millionaires and Emma is soon immersed in a world of luxury beyond her wildest dreams - a far cry from her bohemian lifestyle as a harpist and writer with her lover, Claude, in Montmartre. Emma hopes for an emotional reunion with her only family, but instead she finds herself in the vice-like grip of her charismatic and manipulative sister, who revels in the machinations of the ultra rich. As Emma begins to question her sister's true motives, a disaster strikes, and New York society is stripped bare - beneath the glittering exterior lies a seething nest of deceit, betrayal, moral corruption ... and perhaps even murder.
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