THE LUXE IS . . . Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn. Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions. White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups. This is Manhattan in 1899.

Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.

Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.

Diana felt she was beginning to understand why, in all those novels she read, the headiest loves were the loves that couldn't be.

So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.

All really interesting girls invent themselves.

What was it about that short creature with her wild hair and spurious air of purity and why would anyone much less two men love her and to such disastrous ends.