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"Everyone struggling Downton Abbey withdrawal signs (who-isn't?) will discover an immediate tonic in Daisy Goodwin’s The American Heiress. The tale of Cora Money, an American heiress in the 1890s who totes an English duke, this can be a pleasantly evocative first book that remains in your brain." --Allison Pearson, New York Times-Bestselling writer of I Don’t Understand How She Does It and I Believe I Love You"For kids of the new National billionaires of the 19th-century, it was the best offer: relationship into a cash strapped British Aristocrat in exchange for a name and interpersonal standing. But cash didn’t usually get them joy." —DAISY GOODWIN IN THE EVERYDAY MAILTraveling abroad with her mom in the turn of the twentieth-century to find a called spouse, gorgeous, lively Cora Money, whose family estate in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts’, abruptly finds himself Duchess of Wareham, committed to Ivo, the absolute most eligible bachelor in Britain. In "The Duchess’s Tattoo", Cora Money is eager to be considered a trendy woman of culture.