Flappers & Fiction

When the Mason sisters inherit a sudden fortune, Nina immediately begins planning for a steam-yacht and a debut in high society. But Cathy, the quiet conscience of the family, uncovers a darker truth behind the gold: their uncle’s wealth flows from the city’s most desperate tenements. Faced with a choice between a gilded life and moral ruin, the sisters must decide if they have the courage to lose everything. Meanwhile, a certain handsome solicitor watches their decision with an interest that goes far beyond business.

Cathy keeps house for her three sisters on the heights of South Boston, perfectly content with their lime-trees and ocean view while Nina and Virginia dream of Beacon Street. Then Uncle Mason dies in his chair without signing a will, and four girls who have never once crossed his threshold inherit a palace of old mahogany, Sèvres vases, and hammered silver. What they do with it surprises everyone, most of all Nina.