For a small-town girl with big dreams in 1955, there is no address more desirable than New York's Barbizon Hotel – the place where Grace Kelly first lived in the big city. Laura is an aristocratic beauty who arrives with a magazine internship and dreams of becoming a writer. Dolly is a hopeless romantic working the secretarial pool and looking to be swept off her feet. Vivian is a British bombshell who yearns to make it as a singer while working as a cigarette girl. Filled with glamour, this novel follows the lives of three women as they are lured into the exhilarating, dazzling world of New York City.