Wordfest presents High Tea with Nita Prose

Wordfest presents High Tea with Nita Prose

Hosted by Leah Sarich

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You are cordially invited to the ultimate High Tea Experience starring ebullient bestselling author Nita Prose. This exclusive book with ticket event is in celebration of the international publication day of The Maid's Secret, the final instalment in the Maid series. Yes, Nita has chosen Calgary for her first event, which will be held at historic Deane House (whose four-star hospitality rivals that of The Regency Grand, where Molly Gray maintains the highest of standards). You'll indulge in a multi-tiered array of scones, savoury sandwiches, tartlets, financiers, eclairs, macarons, and custom-crafted dessert delicacies, along with your selection from Tealeaves teas and botanicals from the worldʼs tier-1 gardens. But leave room from for the intimate conversation, hosted by journalist Leah Sarich, followed by a meet and greet with Nita, who will be delighted to sign copies of The Maid's Secret, along with her previous three worldwide hits. Please RSVP promptly, as this is a limited-capacity event. 

Note: This is the calibre of experience that is included with Wordfest's All-Inclusive Pass. You can learn more here. 

About The Maid’s Secret

When a daring art heist takes place at the Regency Grand, Molly’s life is threatened. The question is who’s out to get her, and why? Long-buried secrets will be revealed in this intriguing and heartwarming novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid and The Mystery Guest

Molly Gray’s life is about to change in ways she could never have imagined. As the esteemed Head Maid and recently promoted Special Events Manager of the Regency Grand Hotel, good things are just around the corner, including her marriage to her beloved fiancé, Juan Manuel, only two months away.

But Molly’s entire existence is upended when a film crew descends upon the hotel to shoot the hit reality TV show Hidden Treasures, starring popular art appraisers Brown and Beagle. On a whim, Molly brings in a shoebox containing a few of her gran’s old things for appraisal, and much to everyone's surprise, one item turns out to be a rare and priceless treasure. Instantly, Molly is both a multi-millionaire and a media sensation—the world’s rags-to-riches darling—until the priceless piece vanishes from the hotel in the boldest, brashest antiquities heist in recent memory.

The key to the mystery lies in the past, in a long-forgotten diary written by Molly’s gran. For the first time ever, Molly learns about Gran’s true-to-life fairytale, a young girl to the manor born, the only child of a wealthy magnate. But when Gran falls head over heels in love with a young man her parents deem below her station, her life is thrown into turmoil. As fate would have it, the greatest love of Gran’s life is someone Molly knows quite well… Together with her friends, Molly combs the past and the present to catch the thief before looming threats against her become real.

A spirited heist caper and an epic love story, The Maid’s Secret is a spellbinding whodunnit that will capture and warm your heart. 

About Nita Prose

Nita Prose is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid, which has sold more than two million copies worldwide, The Mystery Guest, and The Mistletoe Mystery. A Good Morning America Book Club pick, The Maid won the Ned Kelly Award for International Crime Fiction, the Fingerprint Award for Debut Novel of the Year, the Anthony Award for Best First Novel, and the Barry award for Best First Mystery. The Maid was also an Edgar Award Finalist for Best Novel.

Instagram/Threads: @nitaprose
Website: nitaprose.com

About Host Leah Sarich

Leah Sarich is the Head of Story for Thin Air Labs, a venture capital firm creating human value by helping startups scale into global companies. Sarich hosts and produces Thin Air’s podcast, The Founder Mindset, which explores the human experience of entrepreneurship. Prior to this position, Sarich worked as a broadcast journalist for 23 years in numerous roles including Health Reporter, News Anchor and Morning Show Host. Sarich is also a passionate book lover and volunteer with Calgary Public Library and Wordfest.  

Instagram: @leahsarich

Be Curiouser

• My mother’s tall tales made me angry. But then I learned the truth. -Toronto Star
• Shop Talk: How Nita Prose wrote a bestseller in shifts, working at dawn and dusk. -CrimeReads