Anton DiSclafani

"From the nationally bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls comes a story of 1950s Texas socialites and the one irresistible, controversial woman at the bright, hot center of it all. Joan Fortier is the epitome of Texas glamour and the center of the 1950s Houston social scene. Tall, blonde, beautiful, and strong, she dominates the room and the gossip columns. Every man who sees her seems to want her; every woman just wants to...

Joan Fortier is the epitome of Texas glamour and the center of the 1950s Houston social scene. But in this highly ordered world of garden clubs and debutante balls the money may flow as freely as the oil, but the freedom and power all belong to the men. What happens when a woman of indecorous appetites and desires like Joan wants more? Devoted to Joan since childhood, Cece Buchanan is either her chaperone or her partner in crime, depending on whom...