THE MAGNOLIA PALACE is a tantalizing historical novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder  within one of New York City’s most impressive Gilded Age mansions. The Frick mansion was  built in 1914 and was the home of Henry Clay Frick, an industrialist who achieved great wealth  and who amassed a stunning art collection including works by Degas, Vermeer, and Rembrandt.  His art collection was so impressive that the house and its contents were left to the city and  became The Frick Collection in 1935. 

Best-Selling author, Fiona Davis pulls readers into a captivating dual narrative exploring the  Frick Mansion both as a private family residence and the public institution it would become.  The novel unwinds through the alternating perspectives of two women, both models, whose  experiences at the Frick are separated by nearly fifty years and are linked across the decades by Helen Frick, the imperious daughter of Henry Clay Frick. 

The result is a page-turning, meticulously researched masterpiece that explores ideas of  beauty, womanhood, resilience, and legacy.

Stacy Willingham’s debut novel, A FLICKER IN THE DARK has it all: psychological suspense,  opaque twists and turns, and an incredible sense of place, within the swampy atmosphere of  small-town Louisiana. 

When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By  the end of the summer, Chloe’s father had been arrested as a serial killer and promptly put in  prison. Chloe and the rest of her family were left to grapple with the truth and try to move  forward while dealing with the aftermath. 

Now twenty years later, Chloe is a psychologist in private practice in Baton Rouge and getting  ready for her wedding. She finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she’s worked so hard to  get. Then a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, and that terrifying summer comes  crashing back. Is she paranoid, and seeing parallels that aren’t really there, or for the second  time in her life, is she about to unmask a killer? 

In addition to making the New York Times Best Seller List, A FLICKER IN THE DARK has been optioned for an HBO limited series by actress Emma Stone, the Book of the Month Club named it a  monthly selection, and rights have been sold to a dozen countries around the world.

NEVER SIMPLE is Liz Scheier’s darkly funny and touching memoir of growing up in ’90s Manhattan with a brilliant, mendacious single mother. 

Scheier’s mother Judith was a news junkie, a hilarious storyteller, a fast-talking charmer you couldn’t  look away from, a single mother whose devotion crossed the line into obsession, and—when in the  grips of the mental illness that plagued every day of her life—a violent and abusive liar whose hold  on reality was shaky at best. On an uneventful afternoon when Scheier was eighteen, her mother  sauntered into the room to tell her two important things: one, she had been married for most of  Scheier’s life to a man she’d never heard of, and two, the man she’d told Scheier was her father was  entirely fictional. She’d made him up. Those two big lies were the start, but not the end; it took  dozens of smaller lies to support them, and by the time she was done she had built a farcical, half true life for the two of them, from fake social security number to fabricated husband. 

One hot July day twenty years later, Scheier receives a voicemail from Adult Protective Services,  reporting that Judith has stopped paying rent and is refusing all offers of assistance. That call is the  start of a shocking journey that takes the Scheiers, mother and daughter, deep into the cascading  effects of decades of lies and deception. 

NEVER SIMPLE is the story of learning to survive—and, finally, trying to save—a complicated  parent, as feared as she is loved, and as self-destructive as she is adoring.