Lions and Lace
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4.6 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
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.
The romantic saga of the Van Alen sisters continues with Christal Van Alen’s story in Fair Is the Rose.
“This beautiful love story will touch your heart, and the devastating Trevor Sheridan will touch your very soul. . . . This novel is not to be missed.” —Inside Romance Meagan McKinney is the author of numerous romantic novels, including Till Dawn Tames the Night, Lions and Lace, Fair Is the Rose, and The Ground She Walks Upon. McKinney is a winner of the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award. Her historical romance, No Choice But Surrender, won the Romantic Times Award for Best Historical Romance by a New Writer and her second novel, My Wicked Enchantress, was a finalist for the Romance Writers of America’s RITA Award.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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.
