My Last Duchess

My Last Duchess
ISBN-10
0750534249
ISBN-13
9780750534246
Series
My Last Duchess
Category
Americans
Pages
524
Language
English
Published
2011
Author
Daisy Goodwin

Description

Gorgeous, spirited and extravagantly rich, Cora Cash is the closest thing 1890s New York society has to a princess. Her masquerade ball is the prelude to a campaign that will see her mother whisk Cora to Europe, where Mrs Cash wants nothing less than a title for her daughter. In England, impoverished blue-bloods are queueing up for introductions to American heiresses, overlooking the sometimes lowly origins of their fortunes. Cora makes a dazzling impression, but the English aristocracy is a realm fraught with arcane rules and pitfalls, and there are those less than eager to welcome a wealthy outsider...

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