Little Black Dress: A Novel

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Harper Collins, Aug 23, 2011 - Fiction - 320 pages

“I’ll read anything by Susan McBride.”
—Charlaine Harris, New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels

“I’m madly in love with this full-of-surprises story about secrets, family ties—and one magical little black dress. One of my favorite novels of the year.”
—Melissa Senate, author of The Secret of Joy

“An enchanting escape into a magical world.”
—M.J. Rose, internationally bestselling author

Can there be magic in a Little Black Dress? Susan McBride, author of The Cougar Club and the Debutante Dropout mystery series, answers with a resounding, unequivocal, “Yes!” McBride’s mesmerizing tale of two sisters whose intertwined lives are torn apart by a remarkable dress that opens up doors to an inescapable future is an ingenious work of the imagination that recalls the novels of Claire Cook and Jill Kargman. A sometimes heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking look into two generations of women, this Little Black Dress is something every fan of quality contemporary women’s fiction will want to own.

 

Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
5
Section 3
13
Section 4
16
Section 5
20
Section 6
26
Section 7
38
Section 8
51
Section 18
153
Section 19
166
Section 20
178
Section 21
192
Section 22
209
Section 23
220
Section 24
231
Section 25
244

Section 9
62
Section 10
73
Section 11
82
Section 12
93
Section 13
99
Section 14
107
Section 15
120
Section 16
129
Section 17
141
Section 26
253
Section 27
264
Section 28
275
Section 29
281
Section 30
287
Section 31
307
Section 32
308
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About the author (2011)

Susan McBride is the USA Today bestselling author of Blue Blood and the Debutante Dropout Mysteries that include The Good Girl's Guide to Murder, The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club, Night of the Living Deb, Too Pretty to Die, and Say Yes to the Death. She also writes the bestselling River Road Mysteries and has penned three women’s fiction titles: The Truth About Love and Lightning, Little Black Dress, and The Cougar Club. She chronicled her bout with breast cancer in the short memoir, In the Pink: How I Met the Perfect (Younger) Man, Survived Breast Cancer, and Found True Happiness After Forty. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband and daughter.