ELIZABETH HOLLAND Only eighteen, and Elizabeth knows exactly where her place in society is-at the top. She's flawlessly behaved and unwaveringly polite. She's pure in every way. Well, every way but one... DIANA HOLLAND At sixteen, Diana is aching to break free of the constrained society that her sister plays so well. She's just as lovely and a little wilder, but if she's not careful she might find that the one thing she wants already belongs to someone else... PENELOPE HAYES With her dramatic nose and full lips, eighteen-year-old Penelope is often derided as being a little too much-not that Penelope cares. She's beautiful and brash and she doesn't care if her money is a smidgen younger than everybody else's. She's still going after what she wants. HENRY SCHOONMAKER The consummate playboy, twenty-year-old Henry has been linked to several debutants, English ladies, and even a few actresses (but don't tell anybody). Penelope might have been one of them, and now he appears to be linked to Elizabeth, too. How long before Diana catches his eye...? LINA BROUD By seventeen, Lina should know that she was born to serve. But the trouble is, she has a chip on her shoulder and a burning crush and a growing conviction that she was made for better things than being Elizabeth Holland's maid.