Elle's living the dream, but whose dream is it?

Elle Garvy loves her life in Beaufort, South Carolina, spending summer days on the sand bar and enjoying coastal bonfires and dinners with friends. She's found her stride professionally as the owner of a successful art gallery, and she's found love with handsome, confident Jeremiah Franklin. Life is good.

Then Jeremiah accepts a large pastorate in a different state, and

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Californian art buyer Cassi Mason and New York gallery art buyer Jared Landine go head-to-head in a bidding war for a very expensive Indian Buddha from the Kushan period. Each is determined to win, but others also want the Buddha -- at any cost. Soon Cassi and Jared are forced to develop a tentative friendship that deepens into romance as they struggle to survive long enough to obtain the priceless art antiquity.

"The Imperial Wife follows the lives of two women, one in contemporary New York City and the other in eighteenth-century Russia. Tanya Kagan, a specialist in Russian art at a top New York auction house, is trying to entice Russia's wealthy oligarchs to bid on the biggest sale of her career, The Order of Saint Catherine, while making sense of the sudden and unexplained departure of her husband. As questions arise over the provenance of the Order and...