From Booklist
Duncan returns to the setting of her delightful Just North of Bliss [BKL My 1 02], Chicago's World Columbia Exposition, where this time around hard-working and overbearing Alex English is awfully proud of his position in the world fair's Agricultural Forum. When one of the women working as a fortune-teller and stand-in for the dancer, Little Egypt, threatens to upset the wholesome, educational atmosphere, Alex takes umbrage. Meanwhile, Kate Finney is working two jobs at the Exposition to make ends meet and to keep herself and her mother safe from her alcoholic father. But he pursues her to the fair and then tries to kill her. Finney is just the sort of nasty element Alex wants kept away from the fair, and if that means Kate must lose her jobs, so be it. Obviously, this stuffed shirt and a gal raised in the slums have little in common, but fate will bring them together if they can just see past the fireworks their confrontations create in Duncan's funny and poignant tale. Maria Hatton
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