Ladies Who Lunch

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"The Junior League of Willow Creek, Texas is tres exclusive. And we work hard to keep it that way. Outsiders need not apply. I know it sounds terrible. But, really, if I don't explain everything exactly, how will you ever understand how it was that I got myself into the 'unfortunate situation' and how all the gossip about moi got started." Fredericka Mercedes Hildebrand Ware (Frede to her friends) is a member of the Junior League, an elite organisation whose members live by a set of Rules for Acceptable Behaviour. But what is one to do when one's husband betrays one, steals one's money and disappears to places unknown? There's no Rule for dealing with that! In her hour of need, there's only one person Frede can turn to for help: Howard Grout, the gold medallion wearing lawyer next door. But it will cost her. The price? To get Howard's wife accepted into the Junior League. With a penchant for white stilettos and tight lycra leggings, Nikki Grout is everything a Junior Leaguer isn't. Frede knows she hasn't a hope. But her Mission Impossible will change her life in ways she could never have imagined ...