Summary
Grace Culver—loquacious, venomous, Manhattan’s velvet-clad hornet—stings her tycoon father by jilting his loathsome business ally and flees into the night with her maid and a taciturn chauffeur, only to be netted by Brazsos, a Teutonic saboteur who has honeycombed the earth beneath the Culver armaments plant with dynamite and treachery; while her maid sprints for the constabulary, Grace unpicks her captor’s knots, drags her driver into the labyrinth, and, as the premature bloom of gunpowder entombs them, trades barbs for vows of love—then emerges to learn that the man whose palm was calloused by a steering wheel is really Yale’s golden-gridiron prince, Harry Cortland, a revelation that melts the paternal frost and turns the family fortune into a dowry of smoke, champagne, and ticker-tape.
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Grace Culver's sharp tongue, has garnered her with the nicknamed "The Wasp." A spirited disagreement with her canning magnate father, John Culver, results from Grace's refusal to marry Kane Putnam, her father's business partner, and she orders her new chauffeur, Tim Purcell, to take her and her maid Miller on a drive. On their return, they are captured by Brazsos, a German spy who plans to blow up her father's munitions factory. Grace learns of the hidden tunnel Brazsos has excavated to the factory, and as Miller escapes to alert the police, Grace unties the chauffeur and leads him to the tunnel. When the bomb explodes prematurely, Grace and Tim become trapped, and facing death, they confess their mutual love. The two are rescued, after which Grace discovers that Tim actually is wealthy Yale football star Harry Cortland, a revelation that delights her father.
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