β Scribed by B. A. Shapiro
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ART FORGER AND THE MURALIST
"Dazzling and seductive, a tour de force, The Collector's Apprentice is an exhilarating tale of shifting identities, desire, and intrigue set between 1920s Paris and Philadelphia."βDawn Tripp, bestselling author of Georgia
It's the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Parisβbroke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiancΓ©, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost everything, she creates a new identity, a Frenchwoman named Vivienne Gregsby, and sets out to recover her father's art collection, prove her innocenceβand exact revenge on George.
When the eccentric and wealthy American art collector Edwin Bradley offers Vivienne the...
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