SAVAGE GIRL by Jean Zimmerman - BOOK - ADVANCE READING COPY

Jean Zimmerman’s new novel tells
of the dramatic events that transpire when an alluring, blazingly smart
eighteen-year-old girl named Bronwyn, reputedly raised by wolves in the
wilds of Nevada, is adopted in 1875 by the Delegates, an outlandishly
wealthy Manhattan couple, and taken back East to be civilized and
introduced into high society.

Bronwyn hits the highly mannered
world of Edith Wharton–era Manhattan like a bomb. A series of suitors,
both young and old, find her irresistible, but the willful girl’s
illicit lovers begin to turn up murdered.

Zimmerman’s tale is narrated by
the Delegate’s son, a Harvard anatomy student. The tormented,
self-dramatizing Hugo Delegate speaks from a prison cell where he is
prepared to take the fall for his beloved Savage Girl. This narrative—a
love story and a mystery with a powerful sense of fable—is his
confession.