Hummel, Maria

"Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. As the city's richest art patrons pour into the Rocque Museum's opening night, all the staff hope the event will be enough to save the historic institution's flailing finances. Except Kim Lord never shows up to her own gala"--OCLC.

To provide for his children after being drafted into military service, surgeon Frank Kappus, a recent widower, marries a young woman who struggles to keep one of the children from being declared mentally unfit.