First published 2018
Emily Charlton's image consulting career in Hollywood is slipping. She's losing clients to social media savvy competitors and desperately needs a major win. Enter Karolina Hartwell, the former L'Oreal supermodel married to New York senator Graham, who has presidential ambitions. Their Kennedy-like power couple image crumbles when Karolina gets arrested for drunk driving with a car full of children. Emily sees her career-saving opportunity and heads to Greenwich, Connecticut, despite her hatred of suburban life. There she meets Miriam, a former Manhattan law firm partner now navigating the treacherous social hierarchy of stay-at-home motherhood in an ultra-wealthy town. The three women form an unexpected alliance as they face the perfectly manicured lawns and razor-sharp gossip of Greenwich society. Emily must rehabilitate Karolina's reputation while dealing with her own fish-out-of-water struggles in suburbia. Together, they discover that surviving Greenwich's social warfare requires more than designer clothes and careful PR.
Genres: fiction, contemporary, adult-fiction, 21st-century, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, found-family
Setting: Connecticut, Greenwich, Hollywood, Manhattan, New York
Period: 21st-century
340 pages · Hardcover · Simon & Schuster