The Luxe by Anna Godbersen- Elizabeth

It is 1899 in Manhattan, filled with scandal and drama. Everything Diana and Elizabeth do is under the microscope. The book opens at Elizabeth Holland's funeral. All of New York's finest are there. All of her family. Except one. Her sister Diana has not yet arrived so the procession starts and when the church door bands open and Diana runs in with a fading smile there is cause for suspicion. Why would she be smiling at her sisters funeral? The book is told from the perspective of five people: Diana Holland, Elizabeth Holland, Penelope Hayes , and Henry Schoonmaker and Lina Broud. 

Elizabeth has just returned from a summer in Paris and she has barely gotten off the boat when her mother forces her to a costume party at the Hayes' new home on Fifth avenue. At the party Louisa Holland claims that everyone has been asking about her. She says it would be a good thing is one of her daughters dance partners would propose. Elizabeth responses by saying "Well, you are lucky I'm still so young, and we still have years before I even have to begin picking one of them." "Oh no... the one thing we do not have is time." (pg 12) Elizabeth gives her mother a strange look and goes to dance with Percival Coddington. As soon as Mr. Coddington approached her, she realized that he was dressed in a shepherd costume; just like she was. Percival could not dance, he could barely walk without tripping. But being the lady she was she danced with him and tried to make small talk. As she turned to give her mother a reassuring look, she saw her standing with two men. One was her father's accountant and the other was William Schoonmaker. While she danced with Mr. Coddington, Elizabeth was thinking about what seems to be a lover. She wonders what he has been doing while she was in Paris.