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They Gave Me a Check at Twelfth Night, So I Took Their Mardi Gras

A serialized novel · 32 chapters published · 3 free to read

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At the Villere family's Twelfth Night party in New Orleans, Clem Mouton is handed a check for six years of service and the plastic baby from the king cake. By the rules of the krewe the baby makes her keeper of Carnival, and she takes them down in six public scenes before Fat Tuesday.

Tropes & themes: dramatic · contemporary · female lead · revenge · romance · public-scandal · class divide · in-law conflict · betrayal · divorce & regret · second chance · modern city

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1: The Baby in the Cake (free)
  2. Chapter 2: Escort, Not Date (free)
  3. Chapter 3: The Curb on Prytania (free)
  4. Chapter 4: The Oldest Queen (free with an account)
  5. Chapter 5: A Question for the Tea (free with an account)
  6. Chapter 6: Turn the Collar Over (free with an account)
  7. Chapter 7: The Levee (free with an account)
  8. Chapter 8: Pilot's License (free with an account)
  9. Chapter 9: The Hem (free with an account)
  10. Chapter 10: Still on the Microphone (free with an account)
  11. Chapter 11: The Board (free with an account)
  12. Chapter 12: The Night Before (free with an account)
  13. Chapter 13: Masks (free with an account)
  14. Chapter 14: The Lamp (free with an account)
  15. Chapter 15: Two Hundred Thousand (free with an account)
  16. Chapter 16: Escort, You Said (free with an account)
  17. Chapter 17: The Ally (locked)
  18. Chapter 18: Paste (locked)
  19. Chapter 19: Slow Water (locked)
  20. Chapter 20: The Family Silver (locked)
  21. Chapter 21: Lundi Gras (locked)
  22. Chapter 22: The Grace (locked)
  23. Chapter 23: The River Doesn't Care (locked)
  24. Chapter 24: The Gate (locked)
  25. Chapter 25: Masks Down (locked)
  26. Chapter 26: St. Charles (locked)
  27. Chapter 27: Ash Wednesday (locked)
  28. Chapter 28: Morning on the Marie Odile (locked)
  29. Chapter 29: Sunday (locked)
  30. Chapter 30: Jazz Fest (locked)
  31. Chapter 31: The Lace (locked)
  32. Chapter 32: Twelfth Night (locked)

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