The Madcap

In this series:

Newport Summer

The Romany Heiress

The Heroic Baron

The Dowager’s Wager

Nikki Poppen

San Francisco, Late Spring 1889

Marianne never saw it coming. It had been done with
classic technique. The woman had waited until Marianne had acknowledged her. Then, when there could be
no mistake about who was slighting whom, the woman
had lifted her chin with a haughty air and sailed past
without a flicker of recognition even though Marianne
had shared the woman’s box at the opera two nights
prior. The worst thing in the world had happened for
someone who aspired to be accepted by the social elite
of New York. She’d been given the cut direct in the middle of a Patriarchs’ ball and subsequently sent home in
disgrace.