It took Flora Wingfield’s best work to convince her family to summer in New Orleans, but with Teddy Day a bachelor once again, she’s leaving nothing to chance. Thanks to Theodore’s fame as a suitor in a socialite’s outlandish competition to find a husband, he has become very desirable royalty in Southern society and thus has an advantage. The brother with the most sales by summer’s end will win the position. Jilted in front of all New York, Theodore Day decides to lose himself in his family’s luxury riverboat business in New Orleans and compete against his brother to become the next company head. New Orleans’ most eligible bachelor insists he’s not on the market. until she meets a gentleman who captures her attention, and she must discover for herself if his motives are pure. She doesn’t expect to find anything other than a proxy. Willow reluctantly agrees, knowing she must do what is best for the business. She has six months to court the group and is told to to eliminate men each month to narrow her beaus until she chooses one to marry, ending the competition with a wedding. Willow is presented with thirty potential suitors from the families of New York society’s elite group called the Four Hundred.

The shareholders are unwilling to allow a female to take over the company without a man at her side, so her parents devise a plan–find Willow a spokesman king in order for her to become queen of the business empire. Willow Dupré never thought she would have to marry, but with her father’s unexpected retirement from running the prosperous Dupré sugar refinery, she is forced into a different future. My Dear Miss Dupré (American Royalty Book #1)

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