Forbidden romance ensues, followed by betrayal and scandal. There she instantly falls for the black piano player and exhibits talent as a chanteuse. All three lives change when Gloria busts out of her good girl role and starts visiting a nightclub. Clara is Gloria's cousin, ostensibly dragged to Chicago to help with Gloria's wedding, but also escaping something shadowy in her past. Her best friend, Lorraine, lusts after a boy she'll never win while spending daddy's money on sequined headbands and fringed sheaths she wears to knock back dirty martinis at speakeasies. Gloria is wealthy, gorgeous, and engaged to the hottest bachelor in the Windy City. Opening the Flappers series, Larkin's frothy debut tracks the lives of three flappers in Chicago at the height of the Roaring '20s.
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