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nFrom a USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon bestselling author comes a Gilded Age series, The Bostwicks of Trillium Bay. Brogan brings her signature wit and whimsy to this delightful trio of historical stories. - USA Today bestseller Elizabeth Essexn n nn nAbove the glistening waters of Trillium Bay, the majestic Imperial Hotel awaits its first guests. It's the summer of 1888, and names like Carnegie, Astor, Pullman, and Bostwick line the premier resort's registry as society's elite gather on its grandiose front porch to see - and be seen.n n nn nBut Chase Bostwick isn't interested in being seen. As the second son of a wealthy financier, he's only interested in work - in Chicago - so being tasked by his father to chaperone his wearisome mother and boisterous little sister during their Michigan summer holiday is Chase's personal purgatory masquerading as paradise - for never was a man more ill-suited to leisure.n n nn nEmerson McKenna isn't interested in being seen, either - but she does want her artistic talents to be noticed. As the illegitimate daughter of a renown portraitist more infamous for his romantic dalliances than for his work, Emerson has schemed her way into a position at the hotel teaching doe-eyed debutantes to paint. She says her goal is to commission enough portraits from the resort's wealthy patrons to finance her dreams of studying in Paris.n n nn nBut Chase has his suspicions...n n nn nThinking to ease his ennui, he sets about to unravel the mysteri