The American Heiress / Daisy Goodwin / 468 pages / R. T. Reviewer's Choice Award

Cora Cash is the wealthiest heiress in America.  Her fortune has come from the Cash flour mills and is internationally recognized.  Her mother has carefully groomed her and takes her to Europe after her lavish masquerade ball in 1893 Newport, Rhode Island.  She wants Cora to obtain a title - the only thing money can't buy in America.  Cora is quickly courted by a English duke who has rescued her after she is thrown from her horse.  She must deal with all the intricacies of titled life, a diffuclut mother, a doubly difficult Double Duchess - her mother-in-law, and scandal.