Lush Lives

For artist Glory Hopkins, inheriting her aunt's Harlem brownstone feels more like a curse than a blessing. But when she stumbles into Parkie de Groot, a savvy auction house appraiser, her unexpected windfall begins to look more promising as they form an immediate but undeniable connection. But complications soon arise: between Parkie's struggle to overcome the heartache of past romances and Glory's all-consuming artistic ambitions, secrets begin to be kept. And the deeper they dig into the mysteries of the inherited house, the more fraught their relationship becomes . . . An evocative love story set in the high-stakes art and auction worlds in New York City, Lush Lives is about smart, driven women unafraid to take risks and fight for what they love.

J. Vanessa Lyon is the author of The Groves (an Audible Original) and Meet Me in Madrid, under the pseudonym Verity Lowell. She is an art historian, former appraiser and occasional curator who teaches at a New England liberal arts college.