Clara, hoping to keep her wild past in New York a secret, adopts the nickname “Country Clara” in order to portray an innocent image in Chicago. Lorraine, although having the best intentions at heart, is blinded by her own self-image, feeling shadowed by her best friend’s perceived perfection. Vixen is written from the perspective of three different characters: the main character, Gloria Lorraine, her self-centered “best friend ” and Clara, her wild cousin and reformed flapper.

Ultimately, Gloria is faced with choosing between the welfare of her family or her own happiness.

She starts partying at some of the most infamous speakeasies in Chicago and even forms a forbidden friendship with an African-American pianist. When Gloria wants to venture out of her insulated, overprotected life, the deal disintegrates. Little did she know, her engagement is nothing more than a business deal, not the fairy-tale love story she had imagined it to be. Gloria’s wealthy, high-society family arranges for her to be married to well-respected Sebastian Grey for the sake of maintaining their family’s reputation. Gloria Carmody, engaged to be married before the start of her senior year in high school, is expected to follow a certain lifestyle. Vixen has not been released into the public yet however, it comes out soon on December 14. Instead, it speaks of a time that will not soon be forgotten: the Roaring Twenties with its flappers, speakeasies, and gangsters. Vixen, by Jillian Larkin, does not follow this overused mystical formula. But for faithful believers in the book industry, persistence paid off. These days, it is hard to find a book in the teen section of a bookstore that is not about vampires, werewolves, or other immortal creatures.

Vixen by jillian larkin