Nicole Jeffords

Nicole Jeffords studied creative writing in the MA program at Boston University under mentors Rose Ellen Brown and Stanley Elkin. Her novel Hearts of Glass was published by Crown in 1992. She is currently working on a series of novellas based on her episodic novel, A Secret Grave, which started as an experiment (she wanted to see if it was possible to write fiction as a daily blog) and ran for two years on the widely read, Austin-based online arts and culture magazine, ArtProfiler.com.

Marrying Up

Frances first saw Jack in the winter of 1947 at a debutante party. He was with a blond-haired girl whom Frances later found out was his cousin, and who left him alone for most of the evening.