Had the Hollands sent their younger daughter Diana to Paris, she wouldn't have squandered the time learning to be a proper young lady, as her elder sister Elizabeth did. Diana, who couldn't care less for the rules of etiquette and polite conversation, would have dined with artists and poets, and danced the can-can at the Moulin Rouge.

At sixteen, she is every bit as attractive and intelligent as Elizabeth—but with dark, unruly curls and no interest in the latest fashions, her beauty is unrefined and wild. Diana did not attend finishing school or make a formal entrance into society with a cotillion. Instead, much to her mother's dismay, she spends a good deal of time reading fiction, courting romance, and dreaming up adventures. She is bursting to break free of society's stuffy rules—and she longs to escape with an equally daring young man.

In Manhattan, Diana's every move inspires gossip and threatens the Holland's pristine reputation. She has wealth and privilege, but she would trade it all for the sweet taste of freedom . . . and she just might.