The men are from West Hollywood, Massachusetts, Manhattan, and Michigan; the women are from Newport, Rhode Island. Jan Austen reports, cut by thrust and parry, on the Great Game--sexual politics--played as a fabled New England family declines and falls.
Book One in this quartet, "A Single Man, Good Fortune (Must Want Wife)," is the story of Mathew and Zola Bennet-Towne--the scion and the siren.