Shupe has expertly developed her winning protagonists to reveal great depth of character. Mystery simmers in the background as Julius searches for the unknown men he believes drove his father to suicide. When the romance sizzles between Nora and Julius, the barriers of their arrangement begin to fall away. Set in New York Citys Gilded Age, Joanna Shupes first book in her Four Hundred series features an English beauty with a wicked scheme to win the man she loves. He’s astonished to feel intense attraction and come to admire her. Julius agrees to pose as Nora’s fake fiancé in exchange for her assisting him in his quest to enter New York upper-crust society. She settles on Julius Hatcher, a wealthy financier known for his outlandish parties and scandalous liaisons with actresses. Nora devises a plan to find a most unsuitable fiancé so that her father will relent and allow her to return to England to marry Robert. After Lady Honora “Nora” Parker’s father learns of her unsuitable relationship with penniless artist Robert Landon, he sends her away from her home in England to live with her aunt and uncle in New York and find an appropriate husband. Shupe (the Knickerbocker Club series) takes readers back to the Gilded Age of 19th-century New York in the enjoyable debut of her Four Hundred series.
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