The story takes place in a small area in an anonymous southern state. The main character is a Creole lady named Indiana who was fortunate enough to be legally adopted by a very affluent white couple and raised as a sister to their biological daughter. Indy's mother passed away while in their employment. The author has drawn on a cast of eccentric people she has met over the years in various parts of the south. Her grandmother always told her that the difference between eccentric and just plain crazy was money. If you have money eccentric sounds so much better than crazy. There are lots of people with money in Trudeau the town where the nucleus of this story takes place. The (fictitious?) story includes the Grande Dames of the area, a madame who bought a mansion in their upscale neighborhood!!! Add to the mix the Bonner brothers, the (slow) twins the town has sort of adopted. What they don't get into! Things heat up when several young women of a certain reputation are found dead in the surrounding area. This story goes from one of the better known citizens of the town attempting to ax down her garage door at 2 a.m. to get to her liquor supply. The town la-de-da's and Daughters of the South picketing the house of ill repute once they figured out it is not going to be a bed and breakfast. The sheriff is a less than savory character, to say the least. There are a cast of other colorful locals as well as people just passing through. This all mixes well together to form a story about life, warts and all. Some characters are waiting in the wings in maybe more.

Candid, relatable stories by established and emerging women writers about being discarded by someone from whom they expected more: a close female friend. There are 161 million women in America today, and our friendships are still as primary and universal as back when Ruth and Naomi, Elizabeth and Susan B., and Thelma and Louise made history. When a romantic relationship breaks up, no problem—there’s an Adele song for that. Health concerns; problems in school; issues at the workplace? We’ve got our chums to prop us up. Until we don’t. When our most sustaining relationships dissolve—those with the women friends in our lives—there’s never been the fanfare that accompanies the loss of other relationships society deems “more important.” Until now. In Dumped: Stories of Women Unfriending Women, twenty-five established and emerging writers—including Jacquelyn Mitchard, Ann Hood, Carrie Kabak, Jessica Handler, Elizabeth Searle, Alexis Paige, and editor Nina Gaby—explore the fragile, sometimes humorous, and often unfathomable nature of lost friendship. These, like your own, are stories that stay with you—maybe for a lifetime.

Creating a sort of periodic table of the southern populace, Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy catalogs and describes the several social types--gentleman and lady, "lord of the lash" and cunning belle, fun-loving "good old boy," depraved redneck, and other figures--that have animated the region since antebellum times.

"A satirical account of Communist Party circles in New York City." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation.

He wasn’t meant to be on my radar, he was definitely the off-limits guy. My brother’s best friend, my friend’s ex, but most of all he was my boss. Hawk Carnage resembled one thing, and one thing only. Sex. He used it, he knew it, he lived it. Hawk owned the largest lingerie company in the world, and I was his leading lady. In business. But now business and friendship were about to be crossed. The lines blurred, and I was ready to dip my toes in the forbidden water. Because no matter how much I said I could refrain from Hawk Carnage, now was not the time. He was to be my fake fiancé. And I was about to sink into that forbidden water, with Hawk’s hands clutching my sides. Lord help me because I was about to enjoy every moment of it. Even if it was just for fun. Even if it would ruin everything. I was going to dive in head first.

Traditional Chinese edition of Why Men Marry Bitches:A Womans Guide to Winning Her Mans Heart. Note: the word "bitch" simply means strong women. In Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.