Source - Received from publisher to review
On a summer's day in 1922 Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita,
Kansas, to New York City, leaving behind a marriage that's not as
perfect as it seems and a past that she buried long ago. She is charged
with the care of a stunning young girl with a jet-black fringe and eyes
wild and wise beyond her fifteen years. This girl is hungry for stardom
and Cora for something she doesn't yet know. Cora will be many things in
her lifetime - an orphan, a mother, a wife, a mistress - but in New
York she is a chaperone and her life is about to change.
It is here under the bright lights of Broadway, in a time when
prohibition reigns and speakeasies with their forbidden whispers behind
closed doors thrive, that Cora finds what she has been searching for. It
is here, in a time when illicit thrills and daring glamour sizzle
beneath the laws of propriety that her life truly begins. It is here
that Cora and her charge, Louise Brooks, take their first steps towards
their dreams...
