title: Poppy the Pageant Princess
author: Brittanee Tomkow
description: Brittanee Tomkow is a pageant coach and the founder of Brittanee's Beauties - Canadian Pageant Coaching, which is the first pageant coaching company in Alberta, Canada. She believes in teaching girls to let their inner sparkle shine. This is her first book in The Pageant Press childrens series.
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  Left standing on the side while their contemporaries marry into society, four
  young ladies forge a bond to guard each other from a similar fate . . .
  
  
  Finishing school failed to make a proper lady of Penelope Arrington. But as a
  Wallflower of West Lane, Poppy has a far more vital role—she and her three
  best friends have made a pact to protect each other from the clutches of
  dangerous, disreputable men. So when one of them is about to be married off to
  a duke sight unseen, Poppy makes it her mission to divine the prospective
  husband’s true character. If only she didn’t require the aid of London’s most
  unsuitable rake.
  
  
  Rhys Draper, Earl of Marsden, has known the headstrong Poppy since she was a
  young girl, naïve to the ways of men. To her eternal chagrin—and to his vague
  amusement—they have been at odds over the memory of their embarrassing first
  encounter all these years. Now, with his services in need, Rhys sees a chance
  to finally clear the air between them.