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Diary of a Gilded Sin

Clara Vance already has everything in life anyone could ask for. Popular, loved by millions of followers across social media accounts. One of the world’s highest paid model, founder of a beauty empire she had built from scratch, and a life curated to perfection. Everything was going smoothly until she lost a bet to her mother. The catch was her inheritance. Now she had to supervise a dreary clear-out of the family’s decaying ancestral manor. Having no choice, bored and complaining, she stumbled upon a diary tucked in the attic. It was an antique relic belonging to her great-grandmother, Eleanor Thorne. The pages revealed a secret more intoxicating than any modern scandal. Eleanor’s desperate, forbidden love for her formidable step-uncle, Casimir Guggenheim. A powerful railroad magnate in the Gilded Age. Their passion was a sin that could shatter their gilded world, a secret buried in time… …until Clara’s thumb brushed over the tear-stained, centuries-old ink, and the scent of crushed gardenias hurled her through time itself. She wakes in 1879, trapped in Eleanor’s body, in Eleanor’s life. She is now the orphaned heiress, the ward of the very man whose haunted gaze filled the diary, Casimir. He is everything the pages promised, an austere, intimidating man, but beneath his cold facade hid a burning tempest waiting to be unleashed. However, Clara is nothing like the timid, despairing girl Casimir remembers. She’s all sharp edges, inconvenient questions, and a baffling, sparkling defiance waiting for trouble to happen. While Eleanor accepted her gilded cage, Clara rattles the bars with modern wit and a spoiled strategic charm that leaves Casimir both infuriated and utterly transfixed. As Clara navigates a world where a single misstep means ruin, scheming relatives see her as a pawn, and a powerful suitor sees her as nothing but a business merger. And Casimir… Casimir that looks at her as if she’s a complex, frustratingly, and utterly captivating puzzle he cannot solve. Armed with the tragic knowledge of how Eleanor’s life should end, Clara is determined to change it. But rewriting a doomed love story is tedious and dangerous work, especially when the beloved man is fighting his own demons, and the girl from the future might just be falling for the one person history and every rule of this gilded, judgmental world says she can never have. Good thing Clara has never been good at following the rules. She’s a girl with sheer audacity to challenge anything. So if history wants to hand her a tragic story, she’ll tear up the script. Let the Gilded Age try to keep them apart. She had a full trick up her sleeve and nothing left to lose. To hell with destiny.
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