In this enthralling new novel from the author of The List (a "smartly paced and dishy debut," Publishers Weekly, starred review), a young woman working in the high-end art world stumbles upon a rare antique--and an irresistible man with a dark past.
After eight years in the American Furniture department at Christie's, twenty-nine-year-old Carolyn Everett is a rising star. But one wrong decision and a scandal leaves her unemployed and broken. Desperate to piece her life back together, Carolyn leaves New York City to work in a tiny antique store in Newport, Rhode Island.
One day at a small county auction, she discovers a piece of Middle Eastern pottery, which she purchases for twenty dollars on a hunch. Curiosity sends her on a mission to find its original owner, and she eventually winds up in the town's United States Navy Base--and in a relationship with notorious womanizer Marine Sergeant Tyler Ford, who claims the relic came to him as a gift from his translator during the early days of the Iraq War. From two different worlds, Tyler and Carolyn become obsessed with the mysterious relic--and each other--until the origin of the art comes under intense scrutiny and reveals a darker side of Tyler's past. Carolyn still feels like there's more to the story, but can she risk attaching herself to another scandal--and does she truly know the man she's fallen in love with?
The Price of Inheritance is a rare find of a novel. Engaging, suspenseful, and full of intrigue, it delves into the elite world of big bucks deals and dangerous black market promises, where one woman must decide whether she's willing to gamble her greatest asset--her heart.
Show moreIn this enthralling new novel from the author of The List (a "smartly paced and dishy debut," Publishers Weekly, starred review), a young woman working in the high-end art world stumbles upon a rare antique--and an irresistible man with a dark past.
After eight years in the American Furniture department at Christie's, twenty-nine-year-old Carolyn Everett is a rising star. But one wrong decision and a scandal leaves her unemployed and broken. Desperate to piece her life back together, Carolyn leaves New York City to work in a tiny antique store in Newport, Rhode Island.
One day at a small county auction, she discovers a piece of Middle Eastern pottery, which she purchases for twenty dollars on a hunch. Curiosity sends her on a mission to find its original owner, and she eventually winds up in the town's United States Navy Base--and in a relationship with notorious womanizer Marine Sergeant Tyler Ford, who claims the relic came to him as a gift from his translator during the early days of the Iraq War. From two different worlds, Tyler and Carolyn become obsessed with the mysterious relic--and each other--until the origin of the art comes under intense scrutiny and reveals a darker side of Tyler's past. Carolyn still feels like there's more to the story, but can she risk attaching herself to another scandal--and does she truly know the man she's fallen in love with?
The Price of Inheritance is a rare find of a novel. Engaging, suspenseful, and full of intrigue, it delves into the elite world of big bucks deals and dangerous black market promises, where one woman must decide whether she's willing to gamble her greatest asset--her heart.
Show moreKarin Tanabe is the author of A Woman of Intelligence, The Gilded Years, The Price of Inheritance, A Hundred Suns, The Diplomat’s Daughter, and The List. A former Politico reporter, her writing has also appeared in the Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, and The Washington Post. She has made frequent appearances as a celebrity and politics expert on Entertainment Tonight, CNN, and The CBS Early Show. A graduate of Vassar College, Karin lives in Washington, DC. To learn more visit KarinTanabe.com.
"Readers will find plenty to savor...Carolyn is a winning character
with a quick wit and the opulent environs she inhabits are
definitely worth a visit."
*The Washington Post*
"A compelling novel of financial and emotional high stakes."
*In Touch*
"Tanabe's absorbing novel blends equal parts mystery, wit, and
romance."
*Booklist*
"Karin Tanabe's The Price of Inheritance is a deeply enjoyable and
riotously funny takedown of the high-stakes New York art world and
its most glamorous and illicit auction houses. Matching the spirit
and wit of Steve Martin's An Object of Beauty, Karin Tanabe focuses
her shimmering humor and laser eye on the dangerous lengths the
very wealthy will journey to own a costly piece of history. Lushly
detailed and ambitious in scope, The Price of Inheritance is rich
in romance, war stories and betrayals. A priceless read by a writer
of immense talent."
*New York Times bestselling author of The Starboard Sea*
"This absorbing, quick-turning story takes us behind the doors of
the big auction houses into the homes of the art-collecting elite
and onto the international marketplace with sure-handedness, and in
fascinating detail. Karin Tanabe writes with passion, intelligence,
and a lot of wit, and the book is insanely difficult to put
down."
*The Rest of Us*
With The Price of Inheritance, Karin Tanabe pulls off a
triple-coup: she gives us a juicy insider's look at the high-stakes
auction business, a late-coming-of-age (and enticingly New York)
love story, and a truly suspenseful mystery that crosses borders
from Rhode Island to Iraq. Any one of these on its own would have
been a compelling read. But all three at once? I couldn't put it
down."
*author of Now You See It*
"In The Price of Inheritance, Karin Tanabe weaves a tangled web of
romance and intrigue, while exposing the underbelly of the art
world. This smart and captivating read will have you turning pages
faster than you can say forgery."
*author of You Knew Me When*
"A biting, hilarious send-up of D.C.'s elite."
*People on THE LIST*
“Hildy Johnson would recognize a kindred spirit in 28-year-old
Adrienne Brown, a Beltway-bred, New York-trained reporter who
sacrifices sleep, sanity, and sex to feed the wonky digital/paper
beast the Capitolist – or “The List” as its rabidly ambitious
scribes call it. Adrienne slaves in relative obscurity as a “Style
section girl” at this Beltway must-read, blasting out celebrity
interviews on her never-turned-off Blackberry. But within a month
of her arrival, she also stumbles on what will become a
blockbuster, front-page story involving List superstar and shrewish
White House reporter Olivia Campo. To untangle the details of the
hot-sheets affair between the married Olivia and famously
family-man U.S. senator—and two mysterious deaths—Adrienne enlists
the help of her pushy big sister, Payton. She not only gets a
career-boosting story but the respect of her perfect sibling,
high-powered parents, and sharp-elbowed peers. Former Politico
reporter Tanabe’s roman-a-clef is a hilarious skewering of digital
journalism – and how news is tweeted and blogged at a dizzying pace
by armies of underpaid and overworked 20-something journos—as well
as smartly paced and dishy debut, part political thriller, part
surprisingly sweet coming-of-age tale, and part timeless ode to
dogged reporters with good instincts and guts of steel. Hildy would
be proud.”
*Publishers Weekly, starred review on THE LIST*
"A contemporary, politically astute novel that is both wickedly
humorous and enticing...[with] complex characters, an intriguing
plot, and tightly brilliant execution. When word gets around about
The List, readers will clamor for their copy and devour this
book."
*New York Journal of Books on THE LIST*
"Tanabe gleefully skewers digital media sweathshops...[but] despite
its breezy, chick-lit tone, The List has more in common with
newsroom satires."
*The Washington Post on THE LIST*
"The List is mandatory reading for anyone who wonders about the
impact of new media on Washington's political culture. Tanabe has
written a novel that is delicious fun and incredibly revealing
about life at the intersection of politics and journalism."
*New York Times bestselling author of Eighteen Acres*
“A gorgeous book—I loved it. Funny, intriguing, and utterly
unputdownable.”
*internationally bestselling author of More Than You Know*
"The List is a wonderfully witty insider's romp through Washington.
Karin Tanabe has as sharp a tongue as she does an eye for detail,
about everything from political scandal to office politics. And I
thought New York was a tough town!"
*author of The Darlings on THE LIST*
“Appealing…everything a die-hard chick-lit fan could want: plenty
of fluff, sibling rivalry, deceit and intrigue, and a spunky
heroine.”
*Kirkus on THE LIST*
“The List is a breezy, dishy romp through Washington, DC politics,
journalism, and scandal—a witty and caffeinated glimpse into a
world few of us ever see, let alone know as intimately as Karin
Tanabe surely does. But underneath the considerable pleasures of
its glimmering surface, it's a surprisingly moving coming of age
story about a young woman navigating the bumpy terrain between
ambition and ethics, between her hunger for professional success
and the quiet truth of her own heart.”
*author of Friends Like Us and Still Life with Husband on THE
LIST*
“Part coming of age, part political thriller, Karin Tanabe's The
List is a mordantly funny send-up of quadruple espresso fueled
journalism in the internet age, with the most irresistible heroine
since Bridget Jones at its center. This is Evelyn Waugh's Scoop for
the 21st century."
*author of Imperfect Bliss on THE LIST*
"Karin Tanabe's energetic, humorous debut is narrated by a young
reporter trying to prove herself by chasing the biggest story of
the year. The List perfectly captures the frenetic, all-consuming
pace of political reporting, with a healthy dose of scandal,
glamour and intrigue thrown in. Think The Devil Wears Prada meets
Capitol Hill."
*author of These Girls on THE LIST*
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