

Her younger sister, Helen, is more interested in fixing cars than falling in love-unless it's with her sister's betrothed.Īmy-Rose, childhood-friend-turned-maid to the Davenport sisters, dreams of opening her own business-and marrying the one man she could never be with, Olivia and Helen's brother, John. until charismatic civil rights leader Washington DeWight sweeps into town and sparks fly. Olivia, the beautiful eldest Davenport daughter, is ready to do her duty and marry.

The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changing United States, their fortune made through the entrepreneurship of William Davenport, a formerly enslaved man who founded the Davenport Carriage Company years ago. "If this whole series existed right now, I'd tear through it to the exclusion of everything else in my life." -Teen Librarian Toolbox
