Katharine Lauderdale Volume 2 - Francis Marion Crawford

Katherine Lauderdale would be a New York society belle, if it were not for her miserly father. Her older sister has escaped the unhappy parental home by marrying and Katherine plans to do the same, but her father has already refused to sanction her nuptials with her cousin and childhood sweetheart, Jack Ralston. How will the young couple's defiance of family and society affect their future life together? Will they even be able to have a future together? - Summary by Lynne Thompson