New Orleans, 1895.
Camille Duval was raised to make an advantageous marriage. She simply expected to have some say in whom she married.
When her father announces her engagement to Adrien Dubois-a polished gentleman whose family promises security, position, and a prosperous future-Camille refuses to smile and accept a life negotiated without her. Then a private discovery reveals that Adrien has hidden far more than his intentions, and Camille's refusal erupts into the scandal of the season.
With her reputation under attack and New Orleans society eager to choose its own version of the truth, Camille receives an extraordinary opportunity: cross the Atlantic with her four closest friends under the sponsorship of an English marquess and marchioness and enter the London Season on her own terms.
But gossip travels.
And while one maddeningly observant English lord begins to see Camille herself rather than the scandal attached to her name, the past is not content to remain in Louisiana.
The Scandal of Miss Duval is Book One of The Crescent City Belles, a continuing historical romance saga filled with friendship, society, scandal, slow-burning courtship, and women determined to choose their own futures.
Camille's story continues in Book Two.