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Harper
July 2017
On Sale: July 11, 2017
Featuring: Beth Carrington
352 pages
ISBN: 006239164X
EAN: 9780062391643
Kindle: B01M6XW92N
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Women's Fiction Historical
A Paperback Original
From the author of The Fifth Avenue Artists Society comes
this unforgettable historical novel based on the founding
of the country’s first sororities. Illinois, 1881: Whitsitt College sophomore Beth Carrington
has two goals to fulfill by the time she graduates: obtain
a medical degree, and establish a women’s fraternity, Beta
Xi Beta, that will help young women like herself to
connect with and support one another while attending the
male-dominated Whitsitt. Neither is an easy task. The sole female student in the
physicians’ program, Beth is constantly called out by her
professors and peers for having the audacity not to
concentrate on a more “fitting” subject like secretarial
studies. Meanwhile, secret organizations are off-limits,
and simply by crowding together in a dank basement room
and creating a sense of camaraderie, she and her small
group of fraternity sisters risk expulsion. In order to have the fraternity recognized, she knows she
needs help. She turns to the most powerful student on
campus: senior Grant Richardson, Iota Gamma fraternity
president and the scion of a Whitsitt family—a man she’s
only acquainted with because of her longstanding
friendship with his fraternity brother Will Buchannan.
Staunchly traditional, Grant doesn’t see the purpose of
this women’s organization, but captivated by Beth, he
agrees to give her a helping hand. What she doesn’t know
is how many will stop at nothing to keep her burgeoning
organization out of the record books—and who she can
actually trust along the way. As Beth fights for her beloved Beta Xi Beta to be
recognized, she will uncover deep secrets about the
college and those who surround her, and will have to put
both love and friendship on the line so that history can
be made.
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