A Woman of Means: A Novel

Gerald Dudley is an executive at a hardware company in St. Louis living the quintessential bachelor life with his young son Quint. He is also a man who aspires beyond his means and class. When Gerald meets the wealthy divorcée Ann Lauterbach and the two marry life changes irrevocably for Quint. He enters a social world of private schools and debutante balls known to him only through his fathers longings. As Quints attachment to his stepmother and her means grows her marriage to his father begins to crumble in small subtle ways which ultimately leads to larger more devastating consequences.