The workmen uncover a stash of treasure-from Ottoman pendants to Elizabethan and Jacobean gems-and then the finds disappear again! Could these jewels-one in particular-change the fortunes of Essie and her sisters? In the summer of 1912, impoverished Irish immigrant Essie Murphy happens to be visiting her brother when a workman's pickaxe strikes through the floor of an old tenement house in Cheapside, near St. Could these sketches hold the key to Essie's secret life in Edwardian London? Back in Boston, Kate has uncovered a series of sketches in her great-grandmother's papers linking her suffragette great-grandmother Essie to the Cheapside collection. When respected American jewelry historian, Kate Kirby, receives a call about the Cheapside jewels, she knows she's on the brink of the experience of a lifetime.īut the trip to London forces Kate to explore secrets that have long been buried by her own family. Why would someone bury a bucket of precious jewels and gemstones and never return? From the author of The Song of the Jade Lily comes a thrilling story of a family secret that leads to a legendary treasure.
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