A Duchess-in-training, maybe!
A Good Day to Marry a Duke (Sin and Sensibility #1) by Betina Krahn An interesting basis to a new series. American heiresses ' who descended on England in the late Victorian era' engaging in the London season, hoping for a titled husband. The author's note at the end of the book is quite illuminating about the practice of sending dowered daughters 'across the pond' to bring back a blue blood husband. Some 'bemoaned it as 'the tidal wave of “dollar princesses” '. Although it seems many of these men were no prize, rather total disasters. But do read this fascinating footnote. Daisy Bumgarten has a lot to live down. Her New York debut was a total failure. I felt pained along with Daisy when we overheard the catty, disparaging comments of the New York disdaining elites. To help her family Daisy agrees to a London season. After all she has three yo...