A chance meeting between Faith Rawlings, the daughter of an earl off to visit her grandmother and George Lowe, the son of a servant turns into an adventure when Faith convinces George to join her in first class dressed as her friend Grace. Their whimsical escapade turns tragic when the maiden voyage of the Titanic ends in tragedy. George returns to first class by assuming the guise Faith had fashioned and sees to it she makes it to a lifeboat. He is saved when a gentleman who believes George is a girl who has been overlooked offers up his seat in the last lifeboat. When George learns his father did not survive he is taken in hand by Faith who leads him off on a new adventure, one that proves to be as precarious as it is exciting, for he does so as Grace. Grace is drawn into Faith's world and accepted. This is no easy feat. Not only does Grace need to pass herself off as something she is not, she must overcome the barriers imposed upon her by society.

It is 1921, the dawn of the “Age of Normalcy” and a return to the old ways that prevailed before the World War. Bigotry and intolerance drive Grace Dobbins and her beloved Anita out of their bucolic retreat on Long Island. Grace returns to the glittering but corrupt world of the Broadway theatre, and Anita finds an even truer love, a man she marries. Grace copes with her loss by re-making herself as a “sophisticated lady” and the right-hand of a powerful titan of the twentieth century stage. She routinely courts danger by flying the wood and fabric airplanes of her day and by becoming a celebrated wingwalker. The acute dangers of her aerial escapades prepare her for the most perilous stunt of her life.

Grace is a thief on the run from some very bad people who want the money she has stolen. Her thieving adventures have left her with a vague but compelling impression of the beauty and serenity of the Rhône valley in southern France, so she goes there in 1930 to hide and to acquire farm land that she can work. Since she was a very young woman, toiling in the heat to make green things grow has been what brings her peace. She buys a farm where she lives safely until 1935. But, then she makes an innocent and well-meaning phone call that opens the way for the winds of war to collapse her peaceful world.

"A tongue-in-cheek handbook for millennials, encompassing everything a young or new (or regular or old) adult needs to know, from surviving a breakup to recovering from a hangover, ... [featuring] interactive elements and exclusive stories from Grace's own misadventures--like losing her virginity solely because her date took her to a Macaroni Grill--and many other hilarious lessons she learned the hard way"--