The Powers and Maxine
In a world where beauty is currency and love is a battlefield, Lisa Drummond watches the man she loves fall for her radiant stepsister Diana. Heartbreak is only the beginning. Ivor Dundas has been drawn into something far more dangerous than a simple romantic entanglement. He is tangled in a mission concerning Maxine de Renzie, a celebrated actress whose glamorous public life conceals secrets that intersect dangerously with both politics and romance. As the glittering surface of early 20th-century upper-class society begins to crack, Lisa must decide whether to nurture her wounds or seize the chaos as opportunity. This is a novel about the cruelty of comparison, the hunger for belonging, and the terrible clarity that comes when we finally see people, and ourselves, for what they truly are.
