The Gilded Lie

By Ellen Crume

New Manhattan, 1931.
The skyline gleams with steel and secrets.
Jack Marlowe, ex-cop turned private eye, thought he'd seen the worst the city could offer. Then Vivienne LeClair walked back into his life: a woman in crimson silk with a haunted smile and an envelope that could burn empires.
Her brother's gone. The family fortune's built on forgeries. And the city's art scene? Just a velvet curtain hiding blood money, betrayal, and the ghost of a summer that never let them go.
As Jack peels back the layers of the LeClair legacy, he's drawn into a world of counterfeit glamour, serpents in rings and velvet, and a woman who might be salvation or the sharp edge of his ruin.
In a city that sells lies like perfume and truth like bullets, the only way out is through the smoke.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FG386Z5R
• ISBN13: 9798290192222
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"