Join us as we present Fiona Davis, in conversation with fellow author Christina Baker Kline. Davis, bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue, will discuss her latest tantalizing novel (The Magnolia Palace) about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive Gilded Age mansions.

Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought-after artists' models in New York City, with statues based on her figure gracing landmarks from the Plaza Hotel to the Brooklyn Bridge. But with her mother gone, a grieving Lillian is rudderless and desperate. So when she stumbles upon an employment opportunity at the Frick mansion, a building that, ironically, bears her own visage, Lillian jumps at the chance. But the longer she works as a private secretary to the imperious and demanding Helen Frick, the more deeply her life gets intertwined with that of the family.

Nearly fifty years later, mod English model Veronica Weber has her own chance to make her career within the walls of the former Frick residence, now converted into one of New York City's most impressive museums. But when she is dismissed from the Vogue shoot taking place at the Frick Collection, she chances upon a series of hidden messages in the museum: messages that will lead her on a hunt that could not only solve Veronica's financial woes, but reveal the truth behind a decades-old murder in the infamous Frick family.

An Evening with Fiona Davis and Christina Baker Kline