Of Gold and Shadows by Michelle Griep
Bestselling author and Christy Award– winner Michelle Griep is a sure bet for entertaining and immersive fiction and with over twenty novels in print to date—from Regency- era London to the American frontier—there’s no historical setting that has proven to be too much for Griep. Now making her Bethany House debut, Griep weaves a tale of love, mystery, intrigue, and an Egyptian curse set against the backdrop of the gaslit streets of Oxford, England, in Of Gold and Shadows, book one in the TIME’S LOST TREASURES series.
In 1888 Victorian England, Ami Dalton navigates a clandestine dual life. By day, she strives to establish herself as a respected Egyptologist, overcoming the gender biases that permeate academia. But with a heart for rescuing black-market artifacts, she is most often disguised as her alter ego, the Shadow Broker.
After eight years in India, Oxford’s most eligible bachelor, Edmund Price, has come out of the shadows to run for Parliament and is in search of an Egyptologist to value a newly acquired collection. Expecting a renowned Oxford professor, Edmund instead finds himself entangled with Ami, the professor’s determined daughter.
As they delve into the treasures, their connection deepens, but trouble emerges when a golden griffin—rumored to bear the curse of Amentuk—surfaces and they’re left to wonder if the curse really is at play, or if something more nefarious is hiding among the shadows.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Michelle Griep has been writing since she first discovered blank wall space and Crayola. She is a Christy Award–winning author of historical romances that both intrigue and evoke a smile. She’s an Anglophile at heart, and you’ll most often find her partaking of a proper cream tea while scheming up her next novel . . . but it’s probably easier to find her at MichelleGriep.com or on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest.
