The Lever

A motorcar flashes past Alice Gorham’s victoria on the maple-lined road to Chevy Chase—then slows, its driver turning to stare. Is he a stranger, or Allen Sanford, the boy who once called her his chum?

In Washington’s world of carriages, motorcars, and ambitious business families, a chance reunion brings Alice face to face with an old friend—and with the future he is expected to claim. Allen wants a business career, but his father has steered him toward diplomacy. Alice, meanwhile, aches to become her father’s successor, though the world sees only a daughter where Robert Gorham longs for a son. Business is what she loves most: the power to influence people, expand industries, and make things happen. Can Alice find a place in a world that has already decided what she may be?

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