Renée Rosen

1876. In the glittering world of Manhattan's upper crust, wives turn a blind eye to husbands' infidelities, and women have few rights and even less independence. The more celebrated the hostess, the more powerful the woman. And none is more powerful than Caroline Astor-- The Mrs. Astor. Alva Vanderbilt has recently married into one of America's richest families, but what good is money when society refuses to acknowledge you? Alva will do whatever...

"A young woman gets pulled into Estée Lauder's enigmatic orbit as the future cosmetic icon prepares to take the world by storm. From the USA Today bestselling author of The Social Graces and Park Avenue Summer comes a story of friendship, glitz, and glamour in 1940s New York. New York City, 1938. Gloria Downing is done with lies. Eager to distance herself from a family scandal, what she needs is a total makeover and a friend she can lean on-and into...

"New York City in 1965 is filled with opportunities for single girls like Alice Weiss. Alice leaves her small Midwestern town to chase her big-city dreams and lands a job working for the first female editor in chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, Helen Gurley Brown. But nothing could have prepared her for the world she enters. Editors and writers refuse to work for Helen, and when someone tries to pull Alice into a scheme to sabotage her boss, she is more...