The Ex-Debutante: A Novel

When Carlisle Wainwright Cushing of the old-moneyed Texas Wainwrights moved to Boston three years ago to work at one of the citys most prestigious divorce law firms she thought she had escaped the high society shed grown up in – after all no one in Boston not even her fiancé knew she was an heiress. But now Carlisle has been lured back to Texas to deal with her mothers latest divorce and the family-sponsored 100th annual debutante ball which is on the verge of collapse. Shes afraid shell never get back to Boston at least with her reputation intact especially when good ole Southern boy Jack Blair shows up on the opposite side of the divorce court making her wonder if hes going after her mother in the proceedings--or her. . Carlisles trip home challenges her sense of who she really is and forces her to face her familys secrets. Funny smart and poignant The Ex-Debutante is a story about the risks one woman must take if she stands a chance of finding herself real love and her place in that crazy thing we call family.