Minerva Irvington has always lived quietly on the margins of New York City life, shaping bagels at dawn and fading into the crowd by dusk. But when the shop closes without warning, she finds herself unexpectedly thrust into a world beyond her ken with a new job at Bergdorf Goodman.

 

Among mirrored escalators and perfume-scented lounges, Minerva learns to glide in stockings and speak in the polished tones of Fifth Avenue. Yet behind every elegant fitting room lies rivalry, the sting of loneliness, and a secret world waiting just above it all. On the building’s mysterious 11th floor, she discovers a series of strange, shifting rooms that seem to echo her hopes and fears, blurring the line between memory, imagination, and reality.

 

Then there’s Manny—her old friend from the bagel shop, now a hotel doorman with a charming grin and a heart that never forgot her. In his eyes, Minerva finds warmth she never knew she craved—and the promise of a love that could remake everything. But can a girl who’s always played it safe dare to embrace both the shimmering illusions of Bergdorf’s and the messy, magical truth of her own heart?

 

The 11th Floor of Bergdorf’s is a sweeping, romantic journey through 1980s New York, where reinvention shimmers in every shop window, enchanted doors wait to be opened, and love might be the most transformative magic of all.