Rose's elegant narrative and timely dialog express her characters' humanity and inhumanities, while her research and attention to every detail occasionally make it difficult to separate facts from fiction. Rose proves once again that her superb storytelling and powerful prose are second to none." - Beatriz Williams, New York Times bestselling author of The Golden Hour, "Rose's latest stand-alone is a Gilded Age gem highlighting social injustices and an ahead-of-her-time woman's resolve to make a difference. From its utterly convincing setting in early 20th-century New York City, to the determined, marvelously drawn journalist whose quest for justice sets the story in motion, to the page-turning mystery surrounding the legendary Hope Diamond, Cartier's Hope immerses readers in an unforgettable world that beguiles to the final page. "Nobody conjures up historical mystery like MJ Rose, and this brilliant, absorbing novel has it all.
A fast-paced historical novel that shines with as much intrigue and mystery as the Hope Diamond itself" (Beatriz Williams, New York Times bestselling author). memorable" ( Publishers Weekly ), Cartier's Hope is "a twisting tale of greed, revenge, and masked identities that put love and lives at risk. Appealing to a young Russian jeweler for help, Vera is unprepared when she begins falling in love with him.and even more unprepared when she gets caught up in his deceptions and finds herself at risk of losing all she has worked so hard to achieve. Vera is determined to find the truth behind the notorious diamond and its mysterious curses, especially when her reporting puts her in the same orbit as a magazine publisher whose blackmailing schemes led to the death of her beloved father. Shortly after the world-famous Hope Diamond is acquired for a record sum, Vera begins investigating rumors about schemes by its new owner, jeweler Pierre Cartier, to manipulate its value. But Vera Garland is set on making her mark in a man's world of serious journalism.
A city where the suffrage movement is growing stronger every day, but most women reporters are still delegated to the fashion and lifestyle pages. New York, 1910: A city of extravagant balls in Fifth Avenue mansions and poor immigrants crammed into crumbling Lower East Side tenements. In this "heady tale of romance, intrigue, and empowerment" (Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author) during the Gilded Age, a determined and remarkable female journalist is determined to uncover the truth of the legendary Hope Diamond-from the New York Times bestselling author of Tiffany Blues.
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