The Night She Won Miss America

<p><b>From the author of <i>Searching For Grace Kelly</i> a 1950 lovestruck beauty queen finds herself in dangerous company--and on the run.</b><br/><br/>Betty Jane Welch reluctantly enters the Miss Delaware contest only to make her mother happy but to her surprise she's the judges' top choice. Just like that she's catapulted into the big time: the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City. <br/><br/>Luckily her pageant-approved escort for the week is the dashing but mercurial Griffin McAllister and she falls for him hard. But when the spirited Betty unexpectedly wins the crown and sash she finds she may lose what she wants most: Griff's love. To stay together she impulsively agrees to run away with him. And then the chase is on: from the shadowy streets of Manhattan to a cliffside mansion in Newport as the cops a cunning socialite and a scrappy young reporter secretly in love with the beauty queen threaten to unravel everything--and expose Griff's darkest secret. <br/><br/>“Inspired by a true story <i>The Night She Won Miss America</i> is part love story part true-crime saga written with spirit and panache.”--<i>Vanity Fair</i><br/><br/> &#8220Expect glamour grit and some truly unpredictable twists and turns.”--<i>Town & Country</i></p>