In her newest release A BLACK TIE AFFAIR author Sherrill
Bodine takes readers back to the glitz and glamour of high
society in Chicago.
Athena Smith is a museum curator who has a fascination with
vintage clothing, and she believes that the ultimate pieces
for her museum are four gowns known as the Bertha Palmer
gowns and owned by the Clayworth family. Athena wants them
to be the focal point of a collection she is coordinating in
hopes of establishing a scholarship fund to benefit not only
her assistant, but future fashion design students.
The Clayworth family has finally been persuaded to let
Athena display the gowns, but something goes awry. The
gowns disappear, but not before Athena has seen them, and
begun an evaluation of two of them.
What Athena discovers in the folds of the gown have more to
do with her personal history than just the fashion history
of some dresses. How it affects her in her personal life
and her business life make for interesting reading as Athena
teams with her first love, now turned worst enemy Drew
Clayworth.
Pick up a copy of A BLACK TIE AFFAIR and get swept away in the
history of vintage clothing, and lost love rekindled. As
you read dream of yourself wearing some of the fabulous
gowns and jewels described in the pages, and you'll see why
Ms. Bodine is the talented writer that makes you pick up her
books, and not set them aside until the last page is turned.
Athena has two sisters, and while they are secondary
characters in this story I can't help but wonder if I
will see one of them soon matched with Drew's cousin,
Conner. I surely hope so, but as now I don't see any news
on that...I guess I'll keep watching.
Fashion curator Athena Smith will do anything to get her
perfectly manicured hands on the Clayworth family's
celebrated couture collection for her exhibit. So when she's
called in to make sure the gowns are the real deal, she's
ecstatic... until a dress she's examining turns out to be
loaded with toxins (talk about killer threads!) and Athena
faints, only to wake up face-to-face with the One That Got
Away, notorious Chicago bachelor Drew Clayworth.
Drew still believes Athena betrayed him all those years ago,
and he's sure he can't trust her. But when the priceless
gowns go missing, she offers to help track them down.
Reluctantly allied in the quest, Drew and Athena are soon
stunned by the barely restrained passion still sizzling
between them... and memories both bitter and sweet. Is their
new partnership just a business arrangement? Or is this
something more than...
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