About the book:
Title: Lady of a Thousand Treasures (The Victorian Ladies #1)
Author: Sandra Byrd
Publisher: Tyndale House
Miss Eleanor Sheffield is a talented evaluator of antiquities, trained to know the difference between a genuine artifact and a fraud. But with her father’s passing and her uncle’s decline into dementia, the family business is at risk. In the Victorian era, unmarried Eleanor cannot run Sheffield Brothers alone.
The death of a longtime client, Baron Lydney, offers an unexpected complication when Eleanor is appointed the temporary trustee of the baron’s legendary collection. She must choose whether to donate the priceless treasures to a museum or allow them to pass to the baron’s only living son, Harry—the man who broke Eleanor’s heart.
Eleanor distrusts the baron’s motives and her own ability to be unbiased regarding Harry’s future. Harry claims to still love her and Eleanor yearns to believe him, but his mysterious comments and actions fuel her doubts. When she learns an Italian beauty accompanied him on his return to England, her lingering hope for a future with Harry dims.
With the threat of debtor’s prison closing in, Eleanor knows that donating the baron’s collection would win her favor among potential clients, saving Sheffield Brothers. But the more time she spends with Harry, the more her faith in him grows. Might Harry be worthy of his inheritance, and her heart, after all? As pressures mount and time runs out, Eleanor must decide whom she can trust—who in her life is false or true, brass or gold—and what is meant to be treasured.
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About Sandra Byrd:
Bestselling author Sandra Byrd has published more than fifty books over her editing and writing career. Her traditionally published books include titles by Howard Books, a division of Simon and Schuster, Tyndale House Publishers, WaterBrook Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House, and Bethany House. She’s also an independent author.Sandra’s series of historically sound Gothic romances launched with the best-selling Mist of Midnight, which earned a coveted Editor’s Choice award from the Historical Novel Society. The second book, Bride of a Distant Isle, has been selected by Romantic Times as a Top Pick. The third in the series, A Lady in Disguise, published in 2017 and was named by the American Library Association’s Booklist as one of the Top Ten Inspirational Fiction books of the year.Her contemporary adult fiction debut, Let Them Eat Cake, was a Christy Award finalist, as was her first historical novel, To Die For: A Novel of Anne Boleyn. To Die For was also named a Library Journal Best Books Pick for 2011, and The Secret Keeper: A Novel of Kateryn Parr was named a Library Journal Best Books Pick for 2012.Sandra has published dozens of books for kids, tweens, and teens, including the bestselling The One Year Be-Tween You and God Devotions for Girls. She continued her work as a nonfiction author with The One Year Home and Garden Devotions. The One Year Experiencing God’s Love Devotional was named by Called Magazine, the #1 magazine for Christian Women, as among their favorite, must-read books for Fall, 2017.Sandra is passionate about helping writers develop their talents and their work through content coaching and line editing, and has mentored hundreds of writers. For testimonials about her editing and coaching, please visit novelcoaching.com.
My Thoughts:
Sandra Byrd has been a favored author since I read her Tudor series years ago. She has now ventured out into Gothic romance, adding mystery to her ever growing repertoire.
Lady of a Thousand Treasures is book one in her new series The Victorian Ladies. In this book Ms. Byrd places her heroine in quite the predicament. She is alone with a family business to run and must decide whether every piece in Baron Lydney's collection is authentic. With each piece Eleanor finds herself challenged and in more of a quandary than at the beginning.
This book is full of twists and turns that kept me guessing. Ms. Byrd's detailed description of each treasured piece evokes the reader to see the piece through their mind's eye. The romance was subtle, moved at an even pace yet very engaging.
My Bottom Line:
Lady of a Thousand Treasures is an exquisite book that is to be savored not devoured. The reader will feel as though they are viewing each beautiful treasure with Eleanor, and trying to figure out if it is real or not. The faith element is placed perfectly throughout the story teaching Eleanor to trust God not herself, and realize that she's never alone. I highly recommended!
Disclaimer: I received a copy of the book from the publisher as a member of a street team. I wasn't required to write a review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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