02281cam a2200397 i 4500 548327405 TxAuBib 20220204120000.0 210628s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021031241 9780593184011 0593184017 (OCoLC)1248689370 TxAuBib rda Davis, Fiona, 1966- The magnolia palace : a novel / Fiona Davis. New York, NY : Dutton, 2022. 340 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. "Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought-after artists' models in New York City, with statues based on her figure gracing landmarks from the Plaza Hotel to the Brooklyn Bridge. But with her mother gone, a grieving Lillian is rudderless and desperate--the work has dried up and a looming scandal has left her entirely without a safe haven. So when she stumbles upon an employment opportunity at the Frick mansion--a building that, ironically, bears her own visage--Lillian jumps at the chance. But the longer she works as a private secretary to the imperious and demanding Helen Frick, the daughter and heiress of industrialist and art patron Henry Clay Frick, the more deeply her life gets intertwined with that of the family--pulling her into a tangled web of romantic trysts, stolen jewels, and family drama that runs so deep, the stakes just may be life or death." -- Book jacket. 20220204. Heiresses Fiction. Artists' models Fiction. Models (Persons) Fiction. Scandals Fiction. Murder Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Betrayal Fiction. Mansions Fiction. Art museums Fiction. New York (N.Y. ) Social life and customs 20th century Fiction. Historical fiction.