title: The Debutante: A Novel
author:  Kathleen Tessaro 
description: A melancholic, multigenerational romance makes the most of a very tangled web. Cate, an artist who abandoned her talent, heart, and self-respect in New York, washes up in London an emotional wreck in desperate need of work. A temporary gig as an antiques appraiser draws her into the mystery of the beautiful Blythe sisters, recently deceased aristocrat Irene and long-missing Diana, both of whom shocked and fascinated London in the 1930s. And while solving the lives and loves of these dazzling debutantes--their beguiling life and times are recounted in a decade's worth of letters from Diana to her adored sister--Cate and handsome widower Jack pick through their own tortured pasts and discarded loves. Secrets are revealed, wounds are salved, and fears are confronted as Tessaro (The Flirt) nudges this colorful story of scandal, heartbreak, and second chances toward an appropriately sweet conclusion. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  > JESSIE CLEVER
  
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  Copyright © 2016 by Jessica McQuaid
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  Published by Someday Lady Publishing, LLC
  
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  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real
  people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places
  and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblances to
  actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
  
  ISBN-13: 978-0-9907024-8-1
  
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   _For Kay_
  
  > CONTENTS
  
  >  _To Be a Debutante_
  
  >  _Ready For More?_
  
  >  _Also by Jessie Clever_
  
  >  _About the Author_
  
  > > TO BE A DEBUTANTE
  
   _London_
  
   _March 1833_
  
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