Lady of a Thousand Treasures
Book Feature - Lady of a Thousand Treasures by Sandra Byrd
Book Feature - Lady of a Thousand Treasures by Sandra Byrd
HBL Note: I just love antique shopping - or even just browsing antique stores for something unique and interesting. Recently I’ve been on a drive to find barware - particularly mismatched drinking vessels. For our 10th anniversary, my husband and I dined at Oreol in Chicago. One course had a sake pairing and they offered us a selection of mismatched glasses to choose from. That simple gesture made that course so much fun - so now I want to replicate that experience in my own home. Antique shopping is so much fun. So imagine being an antique evaluator in the 19th Century! That is what really appealed to me about this book…read on!
Book Feature - Lady of a Thousand Treasures by Sandra Byrd
From the publisher:
Miss Eleanor Sheffield is a talented evaluator of antiquities, trained to know the difference between a genuine artifact and a fraud. But with her father’s passing and her uncle’s decline into dementia, the family business is at risk. In the Victorian era, unmarried Eleanor cannot run Sheffield Brothers alone.
The death of a longtime client, Baron Lydney, offers an unexpected complication when Eleanor is appointed the temporary trustee of the baron’s legendary collection. She must choose whether to donate the priceless treasures to a museum or allow them to pass to the baron’s only living son, Harry—the man who broke Eleanor’s heart.
Eleanor distrusts the baron’s motives and her own ability to be unbiased regarding Harry’s future. Harry claims to still love her and Eleanor yearns to believe him, but his mysterious comments and actions fuel her doubts. When she learns an Italian beauty accompanied him on his return to England, her lingering hope for a future with Harry dims.
With the threat of debtor’s prison closing in, Eleanor knows that donating the baron’s collection would win her favor among potential clients, saving Sheffield Brothers. But the more time she spends with Harry, the more her faith in him grows. Might Harry be worthy of his inheritance, and her heart, after all? As pressures mount and time runs out, Eleanor must decide whom she can trust—who in her life is false or true, brass or gold—and what is meant to be treasured.
