As soon as she could, Carlisle Wainright Cushing escaped the stifling social confines of Willow Creek, Texas, to make a new life for herself as a hotshot lawyer in metropolitan Boston. Now, against her will, Carlisle has been dragged back to Texas to head up Willow Creek's 100th annual debutante ball. The killer attorney is now hemming dresses and warding off catfights, not to mention dealing with her mother's impending fifth divorce and Jack Blair, the first love who keeps making her forget she has a fiancé back in Boston. And with only three months to transform a motley crew of scruffy teenage rebels into elegant and sophisticated young ladies, Carlisle's ball looks set to be a night to remember - for all the wrong reasons!
Author
Linda Francis Lee is a native Texan now calling New York City home. Linda's writing career began when her article "There Is No Finish Line" was published in her university's quarterly magazine. But she got sidetracked from writing when she started teaching probability and statistics. Later she found her way back to writing, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution called her breakout novel, Blue Waltz, "absolutely stunning." Now Linda is the author of nineteen books that are published in sixteen countries around the world, in languages as diverse as Japanese and Russian. Two of her most recent novels are in development for feature films, and she is in the process of co-developing a television series set in her beloved Texas. Lee's next novel, her twentieth, is a large work of fiction about the redemption of a man, and will be released in 2011. When Linda isn't writing, she loves to run in Central Park and spend time with her husband, family, and friends.
