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Her Reputation (The Bubble Reputation)

Her Reputation (The Bubble Reputation)

Mundy, Talbot

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN10: 9309333804
ISBN13: 9789309333804
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Nov 8 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A young woman's reputation can be seized as readily as her inheritance. Jacqueline Lanier, sheltered by a convent education and made vulnerable by beauty and wealth, finds others eager to control, possess or publicly define her. Against the divided worlds of plantation privilege and flooded lowlands, her struggle for independence becomes inseparable from questions of guardianship, class and the dangerous distance between private truth and public judgement. Displacement and financial insecurity carry Jacqueline from Louisiana to San Francisco, where survival demands a new identity. As the masked performer La Conchita, she enters a commercial world in which appearance can provide both opportunity and exposure. Romantic and social melodrama meets adventure as loyalty, deception and dignity shape the choices available to a young woman learning how little protection society affords those whose lives become objects of curiosity. Sensational journalism sharpens the novel's central conflict: who owns a person's story once the press decides it can be sold? Newspaper offices, performers' lodgings and cabaret life form a setting where private suffering is converted into spectacle, while flood-survival episodes give physical urgency to the wider struggle over identity and agency. The novel brings together reputation, inheritance and female vulnerability without losing sight of the human cost of being misrepresented. This book was out of print for decades and is now republished by Alpha Editions. It has been restored for today's and future generations. This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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