The Lost Jewels

<p><strong>From the author of </strong><em><strong>The Song of the Jade Lily</strong></em><strong> comes a thrilling story of a family secret that leads to a legendary treasure.</strong></p><p><strong>Why would someone bury a bucket of precious jewels and gemstones and never return? </strong> </p><p>Present Day. 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. </p><p>But the trip to London forces Kate to explore secrets that have long been buried by her own family. 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. Could these sketches hold the key to Essie’s secret life in Edwardian London? </p><p>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. Paul’s Cathedral in London. 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? </p><p>Together with photographer Marcus Holt, Kate Kirby chases the history of the Cheapside gems and jewels, especially the story of a small diamond champlevé enamel ring. Soon, everything Kate believes about her family, gemology, and herself will be threatened. <strong></strong></p> <p>Based on a fascinating true story, <em>The Lost Jewels</em> is a riveting historical fiction novel that will captivate readers from the beginning to the unforgettable, surprising end. <strong></strong></p> <p><em> </em></p>