?'Fake' is great fun offering a peek into a world of glitz that most of us will never glimpse
firsthand. ?Washington Post From the author of The Boys' Club a gripping novel set in the
high-stakes world of art forgery that moves across the globe from the trendy art galleries of
Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood to the high-flying international art fairs of Hong Kong. Can
you spot the difference? Emma Caan is a fake. She's a forger an artist who specializes in
nineteenth-century paintings. But she isn't a criminal her copies are commissioned by museums
and ultra-wealthy collectors protecting their investments. Emma's more than mastered a Gauguin
brushstroke and a van Gogh wheat field but her work is sometimes a painful reminder of the
artistic dreams she once chased for herself when she was younger and before her family and her
world fell apart. When oligarch art collector Leonard Sobetsky unexpectedly appears with an
invitation Emma sees a way out?a new job a new path for herself and access to the kind of
money she needs to support her unstable and recently widowed mother. But every invitation
incurs an obligation . . . and Emma isn't prepared for what's to come. As she's pulled further
into Leonard's opulent scene she will discover what's lurking beneath the glitz and glamour.
When she does the past she's worked hard to overcome will collide with the present making her
wonder how much of her carefully curated life is just as fake as her forgeries . . .
