Roses in December: A Memoir — Frances Parkinson Keyes

Her most moving and memorable story, filled with moonlight, roses, gallant young men--and her own delightful love story.

Young Frances Wheeler was blessed with nearly everything that comes with social standing. Her youth is filled with gay and romantic young men, fashionable and charming girls, elegant balls in stately homes. Her beautiful, autocratic spoiled mother's three marriages outrage Boston's polite society, and her insistence on dominating Frances' life threaten the girl's happiness. But then handsome gallant young Henry Keyes comes into Frances' life!