She was giving, beautiful, sensitive and kind. What a fantastic book! Who couldn't love Mamie?! Oh my, she was one of the best female protagonists I have read in a long while. In the midst of their interactions with each other, one of the people that Mamie has been charitable towards desperately needs her help - and that of a good lawyer. She is rather reluctant to admit that she finds Frank irresistible.

He is forced to admit to himself that he is quite drawn to Mamie. Actually Frank doesn't quite understand why he keeps rescuing Mamie, but that he does. They are genuinely concerned with families that are down and out and are extremely skilled in their rather nefarious activities. Her partner in crime is her sister Florence. Mamie does two things: she steals from the rich to give to the poor and she gambles and gives all her winnings to the the less fortunate. When Frank runs into Mamie Greene he is quick to try to pull her out of dangerous situations.

No worries, though, because The Rogue of Fifth Avenue is the beginning of a new series and most definitely is a standalone title for a new series.įrank Tripp is a highly respected lawyer and a partner is a big-scale law firm. The winning combination of wealth, romance, secrets, and seduction makes this an enticing and scintillating series launch.Frank Tripp gets his story! If readers have read Joanna Shupe's The Four Hundred series, you will certainly remember Frank. The lovebirds' flirtatious and wry dialogue is entertaining, and their 19th-century propriety heightens the palpable energy between them. Complications develop when Mamie asks Frank to represent a low-income woman she's met through her charitable work, highlighting social hierarchy and women's relative powerlessness. Social mores of the time are revealed through Frank's attempts to conceal his humble beginnings and Mamie's effort to hide her humanitarian exploits from her controlling father. Neither is aware that their interest is mutual, and their social standings and obligations prohibit their relationship. Frank, who can be counted on to get his high-society clients out of trouble, is in hot water himself when he falls under Mamie's spell.

In 1890s Manhattan, 23-year-old-socialite Marion 'Mamie' Greene worries that she'll be miserable in an arranged marriage, especially given her growing affection for handsome attorney Frank Tripp.

A forbidden relationship fuels lust and love in the stellar first Uptown Girls historical by Shupe (the Four Hundred series).

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