To Love a Lady

For fans of My Fair Lady and The Gilded Age

New York City, 1883. Keira O’Day has spent her life scraping by in the tenements, haunted by the mystery of her parents’ abandonment. When wealthy widow and social climber, Maude Hill, offers her a daring proposition—to be adopted, polished, and presented as a society bride for an English lord—Keira sees an opportunity she can’t pass up.

Maude’s nephew, Alexander Paxton-Hill, is skeptical from the start. Tasked with teaching Keira the art of charm and flirtation, he soon finds himself captivated by her honesty and warmth as she challenges everything he thought he knew about love—and about himself.

After navigating the glittering, treacherous world of New York society, Keira arrives in England and catches the eye of the elusive Duke of Severton. She’s poised to win everything until a lavish ball, a long-buried secret, and one reckless act of love threaten to unravel it all. Now Keira must choose: the role she’s been prepared to play—or the woman she’s become.

Review: 
Keira O’Day is given a once in a lifetime opportunity to leave the tenements behind and become an heiress. But, everything comes with a condition. Keira will have to help save Maude Hill and her hotel dynasty by marrying a person of nobility. As you can imagine, Keira is bewildered by all of the things she must learn of society. But, she has made a friend and ally, Alexander Paxton-Hill who helps her with all that she will need in order to succeed. The details of the opulence of New York's and London’s societies were described in such detail that I felt that I was experiencing things along with Kiera. The Worth gowns, the furnishings, and being introduced to the queen and prince was all so exciting and a bit breathtaking. I loved the retelling of my Fair Lady and the way that it ended for Keira and Alec. It was the perfect ending for Keira and even better than what I could have imagined. Thank you to the author for doing that, otherwise I would have been very disappointed. Things to love: classic movie retelling cottage secrets flirting lessons flower brooch ballroom dances wardrobes faith of characters We are introduced to some other characters who I came to love in the story, and I am excited to see they will be featured in a future book in the Dollar Princess series. I received a copy of the book, but I was not obligated to write a positive review.