![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The unsolved murder turns Hannah's world upside-down and threatens to destroy everything she's built. Finally attaining the life she's always dreamed, she buys a mansion on the Upper West Side and decorates it in gold and first-rate décor, inspired by her idol Cleopatra. As the money pours in, Hannah hides her millions across 29 banks. Hannah quietly invests in the stock market, growing her fortune with the help of businessmen. Shedding her past, Hannah slips on a new identity before relocating to New York City to become as rich as a robber baron. This is the beginning of an odyssey that moves back and forth in time and reveals the dangerous secrets of a mysterious woman, the fortune she built, and her precipitous fall.īorn in Philadelphia in the late 1800s, Hannah Elias has done things she's not proud of to survive. The author of the award-winning Sally Hemings now brings to life Hannah Elias, one of the richest black women in America in the early 1900s, in this mesmerizing novel swirling with atmosphere and steeped in history.Ī murder and a case of mistaken identity brings the police to Hannah Elias' glitzy, five-story, twenty-room mansion on Central Park West. ![]()
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The soft threads on his head might look like sunshine but the thoughts and feelings inside is lifeless and full of dark storms. “I’ll try to be the best husband I can possibly be, which probably is still much less than you deserve.”ĭante Cavalloro, Head of the Chicago Outfit, a broken man who killed the woman he vowed to love until death, a heartless devil without mercy, a cold hearted bastard who doesn't trust anyone. ![]() ![]() And, over an impressively catered palate cleanser of vodka and lemon sorbet, she starts spilling secrets that threaten to blow the Casey family apart.Ĭhapter two skips back to “six months earlier” and another gathering of the Caseys, with each subsequent chapter then leading us closer and closer to Sorbetgate and filling in the gaps to show how they got to be where they are. ![]() Jessie is bossy and in control Ed unobservant and a little dull Cara chaotic and rather rude Johnny a bit of a sexist … But Cara, it turns out, is suffering from concussion. It’s a straightforward and lightly comic scene, each character playing their immutable role within the family. ![]() A large and happy family is gathered at a birthday party: brothers Johnny, Ed and Liam, their wives Jessie, Cara and Nell, and various children from marriages present and past are enjoying an elaborate meal – some of them more so than thers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Musing editor Sarah Arnold chatted with Malinda ahead of her Southern Fest event! Adults and teens alike won’t want to miss this gorgeous coming-of-age story or the chance to hear about it from the author herself at the Southern Festival of Books on October 15 at 12:30pm. ![]() Lo’s new novel, A Scatter of Light, is a companion novel to Last Night at the Telegraph Club but leaves 1950s San Francisco for the more modern setting of the summer of 2013, when the Supreme Court first made major decisions in support of same-sex marriage. In addition to her novels, she has done meticulous research about LGBTQ+ representation in YA books, and her statistics have been widely circulated and cited as part of the effort to raise awareness about the lack of representation of queer folks in YA literature. The magnitude of her contributions to the young adult queer literary canon cannot be overstated - her 2021 novel Last Night at the Telegraph Club was the first LGBTQ+ YA winner of the National Book Award, as well as the first F/F winner of that honor. ![]() Since 2009, she has been writing unapologetically queer stories and forging a path for other queer authors, particularly queer authors of color, in traditional publishing. Malinda Lo is nothing short of a trailblazer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Warning: Dark Flame is a gay erotic love story. If you like enemies to lovers, shifters, sexy vampire princes, and scorching heat, you’ll love this smoldering tale of bloodlust and magic. 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