American Gilt: Scandal

ISBN-13: 9781533379252 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 406 str.

J. D. Peterson

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"American Gilt - Scandal" (Vol 3) The final book of the AMERICAN GILT TRILOGY continues in 1884 as Sara Swan Whiting, once a popular debutante, finds herself disgraced by divorce, and left with a child to raise alone. Previously an admired member of the social set, she is now shunned, and becomes the target of judgment and criticism by her contemporaries. Sara has a friend in Mrs. Astor, the queen of the Four Hundred, but will Mrs. Astor support Sara? Sara's daughter, Natica, born of the ill-fated marriage, is denied paternity by her father, Oliver Belmont, and subsequently the lineage of the powerful Belmont family. Sara never speaks of the divorce, keeping the circumstances of Natica's birth a secret from her daughter. Years pass - Natica grows into a lovely young woman following in the debutante footsteps of her mother. Now a society favorite, Natica is spunky and beautiful, with a striking resemblance to her father. While Natica charms society, her father regrets their estrangement, and watches her grow up from a distance. Anxious to know his only child, Oliver approaches Natica, but his efforts are thwarted by Sara, who forbids him visitation in retribution to his denial of paternity. As Natica comes of legal age she grows curious, and secretly sets off to find the facts behind her ancestry. Natica discovers the truth of her birth father's abandonment and abuse of her mother. Oliver attempts a reconciliation with his daughter, but fate steps in when tragedy strikes. In the exciting finale to the AMERICAN GILT TRILOGY, readers are again transported through time to the wealth and confines of elite society during America's Gilded Age. With information gathered from family letters, historical newspapers, books and personal interviews, J. D. Peterson dramatically concludes the tale based on the true account of the Belmont-Whiting Scandal of 1883. Previously published as SWAN SONG TRILOGY"

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