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A Season of Her Own Making
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A Season of Her Own Making

by Clara Winwood

New York, 1898. Cornelia Vane has been raised to be sold well — a Gilded Age daughter, a fortune in a ballgown. But Cornelia has quietly been learning the family's railroad accounts, and she knows the marriage being arranged for her would save a man who deliberately ruined her father. She decides to ruin him first. A Gilded Age romance of ledgers, ballrooms, and a woman who refuses to be a transaction.

Chapters

1. The Worth of a DaughterFree2. The Ledger Under the EmbroideryFree3. An Introduction at the Astor BallFree