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Magnate (The Knickerbocker Club Book 1) by [Joanna Shupe]

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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016
A Washington Post Top Romance of 2016
Winner! RT Book Reviews May 2016 Seal of Excellence
A Library Journal Cool Summer Read of 2016

"Shupe delivers a tremendously entertaining romance -- sexy and clever -- set in an era the genre has been waiting for." -- Sarah MacLean, New York Times Bestselling Author

New York City's Gilded Age shimmers with unimaginable wealth and glittering power. The men of the Knickerbocker Club know this more than anyone else. But for one millionaire, the business of love is not what he expected...

Born in the slums of Five Points, Emmett Cavanaugh climbed his way to the top of a booming steel empire and now holds court in an opulent Fifth Avenue mansion. His rise in stations, however, has done little to elevate his taste in women. He loathes the city's "high society" types, but a rebellious and beautiful blue-blood just might change all that.

Elizabeth Sloane's mind is filled with more than the latest parlor room gossip. Lizzie can play the Stock Exchange as deftly as New York's most accomplished brokers--but she needs a man to put her skills to use. Emmett reluctantly agrees when the stunning socialite asks him to back her trades and split the profits. But love and business make strange bedfellows, and as their fragile partnership begins to crack, they'll discover a passion more frenzied than the trading room floor...

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1 May 2016
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[O]riginal and captivating...-- "Publishers Weekly Starred Review" --This text refers to the audioCD edition.

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Joanna Shupe has always loved history, ever since she saw her first Schoolhouse Rock cartoon. While in college, Joanna read every romance she could get her hands on and soon started crafting her own racy historical novels. In 2013, she won Romance Writers of America's prestigious Golden Heart Award for Best Historical. She now lives in New Jersey with her two spirited daughters and dashing husband.

Amy Melissa Bentley is a professional stage and screen actress. A member of SAG-AFTRA, she has performed in Scotland, New York City, and throughout Connecticut. Her narration of The Education of Dixie Dupree won her an AudioFile Earphones Award.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0138NHA8A
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Zebra Books (1 May 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 450 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 229 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #286,080 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,481 in Historical Romance (Kindle Store)
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Closet Romantic

Enjoyable with good strong characters

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 November 2021

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I bought this book because of the financial background as I spent my working life in the finance industry. I loved Emmett and Lizzie was great too. Not sure I shall read anymore in the series but this one was a good read. I do like to learn a bit of history and the author's note was interesting.

Mrs CM Rodgers

A good series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 April 2019

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An interesting perspective on the US at that time ands strong minded women.

Kim

Light and eas read

Reviewed in Canada on 21 November 2016

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Okay read, fairly light (still better than Harlequin) with decent character development. A little silly in places but enjoyable.

Gigi

Gilded Age NYC

Reviewed in the United States on 2 May 2016

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Lizzie Sloane is the epitome of Knickerbocker high society. She is beautiful, well bred, and comes from old New York money. She should be the reigning princess of Washington Square. But Lizzie has no interest in society, its stifling rules or marrying well. She is more interested in playing in the high stakes of the stock market and running her own investment firm. Her brother, a railroad baron, refuses to back what he thinks is an insane plan, women of Lizzies' s station didn't go into business plus they weren't even allowed on the trading floor of the stock exchange. So Lizzie decides to look for a financial backer and lands on Emmett Cavanaugh' s doorstep. Lizzie thinks Emmett is he brothers friend so she approaches him with her plan and to her surprise the handsome steel magnate agrees to her wild scheme provided she can demonstrate her ability to play the stock market. He gives her three weeks to double his investment before he commits to going into business with Lizzie. Lizzie for her part is wildly attracted to Emmett, a handsome man unlike any in her set. Emmett is a self made millionaire who crawled out of the gutter and the tenements of New York to become a force to be reckoned with. He cares nothing for society and propriety and is happy to stay an outsider since old NY society, led by the formidable Mrs Astor, looks down their nose at anyone who can't trace their roots to the original settlers. For his part, Emmett finds himself.unwillingly captivated by Lizzie' s intelligence and insanely attracted to her but deep down feels unworthy of her. The scars from his past are deep and his fears of abandonment make him distrustful and suspicious of everyone's motives including Lizzie' s. He decides to avoid dealing directly with her but his brother has other plans which definitely did not include Lizzie' s brother finding her in a compromising position with Emmett. The result is a forced marriage through blackmail and a bride unwilling to settle for anything less than a devoted, loving husband. Lizzie plans for an annulment since it's clear Emmett didn't want to marry her but their out of control chemistry and buried feelings will not be denied. An epic snowstorm throws them into close proximity that will make or break their rocky relationship.

I had only previously read the novella that introduced the series and while I didn't care too much for that book, I liked the authors voice enough to give this book a shot and I'm glad I did. This author reads like a cross between Lisa Kleypas and Judith McNaught. Like Kleypas class differences trope plays a big part, notably a hero from humble beginnings works his way out of the slums and like McNaught there are misunderstandings trope, mostly on the hero's part, that could be resolved with one good conversation. This combination works very well here though. Emmett' s mistrust of Lizzie' s motives were understandable given his history. The love scenes were romantic and pretty steamy for a historical. The h/h had great chemistry and the secondary characters well developed. Gilded age New York was brought to life perfectly and the historical facts were blended seamlessly into the story. My only quibble and the reason this book failed to be five star read was that while I can deal with a hero with Alpha-hole tendencies *read: treats the heroine poorly due to his own issues* I require a proper and preferably long grovel at the end. In other words I would like the heroine to put the hero through the wringer. It's only fair. While Emmett apologizes and grovels a bit, Lizzie is much too quick to forgive and fall into his arms again. Aside from this I highly recommend this book. I am highly looking forward to the next book in the series with Lizzie' s snobby brother as the hero. Here's hoping he gets taken down a peg or two by a highly unsuitable heroine. Highly recommended.

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rebecca wheeler

Loved it!

Reviewed in the United States on 15 February 2018

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Fascinated with this series since I read a book friend reviews on Goodreads, I one-click these books during a sale soon after, and pleased to finally read them, Starting with Tycoon. I devoured this book, it took over my life for a day and a night, which is hard to come by in books these days. Ok, its not perfect, and the had an alpha-hole turned Alpha jerk situations (but I loved him!!), but I'm rating this for the overall " I Love This Book" feeling while reading it. I didn't want to do anything else, read anything else, watch anything else or listen to anything else that would take me out of this world. Life stood still. It was competence porn, All kinds of angst, sexy, slow burn - filled with Rebecca-catnip.

What kept me furiously turning those pages? Attraction, a wager, tease, drama, scandal, forced marriage, drama, drama, draaaama, will you just f***ing bone already!! That was the first 65%, haha!

A refreshing change, instead of the usual historical recency set in England with Dukes, this is set in the Guilded era of New York (late 19th century). A world where self made men are butting up against old world money. A world where it's frowned upon to work like a commoner, especially women.

Elizabeth buck's the trend, and is desperate to run her own investment firm. She can play the stock market as deftly as New York's most accomplished brokers. However being a woman, and therefore banned from entering the stock exchange, is a small irritation in her way that Emmet can help her solve by becoming a start-up investor. Having a man front her business for proprietary is a small price to pay, as long as she gets what she needs to get ahead.

Emmett is all like hell no, prove yourself first and I'll think about it, formulating a wager that will begin a delicious slow Burn romance filled with teasing attraction and banter. Two strong and stubborn characters, building mutual respect and admiration - yet at the same time insecurities cause for much angst.

I admired the level of detail to the time and place, the layers of secondary characters of all classes/staff/family/associations to love and to despise, the conventions and limitations to the time.

I especially admired that for self made magnate Emmett, instead of the author using the "I have a dark secret past that caused the deaths of men, which may affect your love for me so I'm not going tell you anything about me" plot device, Emmett laid out his dark history right at the start to Elizabeth, kind of like a dare. "This is what I did in my past to get ahead, yeah I was a complete jack-ass, but this is who I am, take it or leave it." Allowing Elizabeth's intelligence and depth of character to shine through, by allowing her to make up her own mind through deduction. This daring set up my attraction to the characters, and the story.

And when we eventually got the sexy times? (boy were we painfully forced to wait!!) Holy hotness! Wonderfully written that sizzles across several pages in great descriptive delight, with feelings. I loved the desperate tone.

Overall, a very satisfying read, 4 1/2 stars, rounded up. Can't wait to continue on with everything else this author writes.

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USA Today bestselling author Joanna Shupe has always loved history, ever since she saw her first Schoolhouse Rock cartoon. Since 2013, her books have appeared on numerous yearly “best of” lists, including Publishers Weekly, The Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, Kobo, BuzzFeed and BookPage. She now lives in New Jersey with her two spirited daughters and dashing husband. Visit www.joannashupe.com.

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