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SummaryCarlisle Wainwright Cushing, of the old-moneyed Willow
Creek, Texas, Wainwrights, is the daughter of
larger-than-life Ridgely Wainwright . . .
Cushing-Jameson-Lackley-Harper-Ogden. Given her mother's
predilection for divorce, no one is surprised that Carlisle
becomes a divorce lawyer and runs far away to Boston, where
no one, including her fiancé, knows she's an heiress. But
now, three years later, Carlisle is lured back to Texas to
deal with her mother's latest divorce and the
family-sponsored 100th annual debutante ball which is on the
verge of collapse.
Suddenly the determined lawyer is weighing the merits of
beads versus crystals on ball gowns and teaching
eighteen-year-olds to balance books on their heads, all the
while trying to figure out how to tell her deeply Southern
mother that she is engaged to a Yankee. Things go from bad
to worse and soon Carlisle's afraid she'll never get back to
Boston, especially when good ol' Southern boy Jack Blair
shows up on the opposite side of the divorce court, making
her wonder if the man is going after her mother in the
proceedings, or her.
Carlisle's trip home challenges her sense of who she really
is and forces her to face the secrets her family has tried
to keep, well, secret. Funny and smart, poignant and true,
The Ex-Debutante is a story about the risks one woman must
take if she stands a chance of finding herself, real love,
and her place in that crazy thing we call family.
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