title: The Price of Inheritance: A Novel
author:  Karin Tanabe 
description: "Readers will find plenty to savor...Carolyn is a winning character with a quick wit and the opulent environs she inhabits are definitely worth a visit." (<i>The Washington Post</i>)<br /><br />"A compelling novel of financial and emotional high stakes." (<i>In Touch</i>)<br /><br />"Tanabe's absorbing novel blends equal parts mystery, wit, and romance." (<i>Booklist</i>)<br /><br />"Karin Tanabe's <i>The Price of Inheritance</i> is a deeply enjoyable and riotously funny takedown of the high-stakes New York art world and its most glamorous and illicit auction houses. Matching the spirit and wit of Steve Martin's <i>An Object of Beauty</i>, Karin Tanabe focuses her shimmering humor and laser eye on the dangerous lengths the very wealthy will journey to own a costly piece of history. Lushly detailed and ambitious in scope, <i>The Price of Inheritance</i> is rich in romance, war stories and betrayals. A priceless read by a writer of immense talent." (Amber Dermont <i>New York Times bestselling author of The Starboard Sea</i>)<br /><br />"This absorbing, quick-turning story takes us behind the doors of the big auction houses into the homes of the art-collecting elite and onto the international marketplace with sure-handedness, and in fascinating detail. Karin Tanabe writes with passion, intelligence, and a lot of wit, and the book is insanely difficult to put down." (Jessica Lott <i>The Rest of Us</i>)<br /><br />With <i>The Price of Inheritance</i>, Karin Tanabe pulls off a triple-coup: she gives us a juicy insider's look at the high-stakes auction business, a late-coming-of-age (and enticingly New York) love story, and a truly suspenseful mystery that crosses borders from Rhode Island to Iraq. Any one of these on its own would have been a compelling read. But all three at once? I couldn't put it down." (Allison Lynn <i>author of Now You See It</i>)<br /><br />"In <i>The Price of Inheritance</i>, Karin Tanabe weaves a tangled web of romance and intrigue, while exposing the underbelly of the art world. This smart and captivating read will have you turning pages faster than you can say forgery." (Emily Liebert <i>author of You Knew Me When</i>)<br /><br />"A biting, hilarious send-up of D.C.'s elite." (<i>People on THE LIST</i>)<br /><br />Hildy Johnson would recognize a kindred spirit in 28-year-old Adrienne Brown, a Beltway-bred, New York-trained reporter who sacrifices sleep, sanity, and sex to feed the wonky digital/paper beast the Capitolist  or The List as its rabidly ambitious scribes call it. Adrienne slaves in relative obscurity as a Style section girl at this Beltway must-read, blasting out celebrity interviews on her never-turned-off Blackberry. But within a month of her arrival, she also stumbles on what will become a blockbuster, front-page story involving List superstar and shrewish White House reporter Olivia Campo. To untangle the details of the hot-sheets affair between the married Olivia and famously family-man U.S. senatorand two mysterious deathsAdrienne enlists the help of her pushy big sister, Payton. She not only gets a career-boosting story but the respect of her perfect sibling, high-powered parents, and sharp-elbowed peers. Former Politico reporter Tanabes roman-a-clef is a hilarious skewering of digital journalism  and how news is tweeted and blogged at a dizzying pace by armies of underpaid and overworked 20-something journosas well as smartly paced and dishy debut, part political thriller, part surprisingly sweet coming-of-age tale, and part timeless ode to dogged reporters with good instincts and guts of steel. Hildy would be proud. (<i>Publishers Weekly, starred review on THE LIST</i>)<br /><br />"A contemporary, politically astute novel that is both wickedly humorous and enticing...[with] complex characters, an intriguing plot, and tightly brilliant execution. When word gets around about <i>The List</i>, readers will clamor for their copy and devour this book." (<i>New York Journal of Books on THE LIST</i>)
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  Lady Tregowan’s Will
  
  
  An unexpected inheritance. A year to wed.
  
  
  When Lady Tregowan dies, she leaves an unexpected will. Her estate is to be
  divided between the three illegitimate, penniless daughters of her late
  husband—complete strangers until now. The terms? They must live together in
  London for a year and find themselves husbands or forfeit their inheritance!
  
  
  The Rags-to-Riches Governess
  
  
  Available now
  
  
  And coming soon from Janice Preston:
  
  
  The Cinderella Heiress
  
  
  Beatrice Fothergill is determined to make a marriage of convenience on her own
  terms—she doesn’t expect to fall for her suitor’s brother!
  
  
  The Penniless Debutante
  
  
  Left destitute when her parents die, Aurelia Croome doesn’t trust
  men—especially aristocratic ones. Until she meets James, Lord Tregowan...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Author Note
  
  
  Sometimes an idea comes to you as a writer and you dismiss it as too
  complicated to write. And so it was with Lady Treg