Lions and Lace

by Meagan McKinney, Suzie Althens (Read by)

Overview

From the glittering mansions of the Astors and the Vanderbilts to the gas-lit streets of New York, this passionate novel by award-winning author Meagan McKinney brings together a desperate woman and a handsome stranger who could expose her scandalous secret

New York heiress Alana Van Alen has everything—beauty, wealth, and status. But she is living a lie. To protect her sister, she plays society's game and attends dazzling balls and soirees—until a cunningly orchestrated act of revenge leaves her penniless and at the mercy of one of the city's most notorious gentlemen.

Dubbed the Predator of Wall Street, Trevor Sheridan rose from abject poverty in Ireland to the pinnacle of power in Manhattan. Yet he's still shunned by the city's elite Four Hundred. Now he has parlayed his hunger for revenge into a scheme to destroy the rich and powerful. In the final phase of his plan, he will marry the pedigreed Alana Van Alen to gain the acceptance that has been denied to him for so long. But along the way, he makes a fatal misstep: He falls in love with her.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798874851453
Publisher:	Tantor
Publication date:	07/16/2024
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 5.70(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Meagan
McKinney, the pen name of Ruth Goodman, gave up a thriving career as a biologist to become a full-time romance writer. She is author of twenty critically acclaimed novels and lives in New Orleans with her family.

SUZIE ALTHENS records from her professional studio in Alaska, near the beautiful Matanuska Glacier. She narrates regularly for major publishers and specializes in audiobooks and e-learning. Suzie is enthusiastic about narrating nonfiction as it provides opportunities to share amazing memoirs, medical discoveries, and inspiration, but she also enjoys mysteries and women’s fiction. Suzie narrates children’s encyclopedias and donates time to narrate children’s fiction for Learning Ally, a nonprofit organization, when she has the opening to woo the reluctant young reader.

Editorial Reviews

When Mrs. William Astor dictates that New York society refuse to attend a coming-outcoming-out? ball for the Irish Mara Sheridan, her nouveau riche brother Trevor (called ``The Predator'' on Wall Street) decides to ruin as many of the Four Hundred as possible. One of his victims, however, is the highly pedigreedp. 8 and well-intentioned Alana Van Alen, who tried unsuccessfully to thwart her grasping uncle Baldwin Didier and attend the ball. When Alana's fortune is destroyed by Trevor, Baldwin dumps his impoverished niece on the Sheridans' doorstep. Trevor blackmails her into marriage: Mara will secure social acceptance and a husband, and in return Alana will receive financial security. Alana accepts, as she secretly supports her sister Christabel (who is thought responsible for their parents' deaths but suffers from amnesia). Love inevitably and incredibly results between Trevor and Alana. Despite McKinney's ( Till Dawn Tames the Night ) flaunting of her research, the historical setting is unconvincing, full of exaggerations, errors (Alana's gloves wouldn't actually have had 15 buttons at the wrist)p. 39 and omissions (notably, the period's super-snob Ward McAlister). Major ad/promo. (May)

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