Ocean Sands, Mississippi, is an idyllic gulf town with a
strong sense of community and family. Georgia Elliott grew
up in Ocean Sands and has a small group of friends she
loves dearly and shares almost everything with. Everything
except her most prized secret -- she's the inventor of the
Magic Chef.
The Tiara Club, a group of past beauty pageant
participants, is intertwined in each others lives and
closer than family. They share everything from planning
Callie's wedding to getting Sierra, the newest member of
the club, ready for her first beauty pageant. All is going
well until Callie decides to enter her newest gift from
Georgia, the Magic Chef, into a contest with the Epicurean
Explorer, a national culinary television show that tests
new gadgets for cooking with their world-class chef, Daniel
Rogers.
Georgia is unsettled by this event as it might unmask her
secret, not only to the nation, but most specifically to
her Southern belle mother, Vivian, who feels a woman's most
important and essential attribute is her beauty, not her
brains. As the story progresses, more significant secrets
are revealed than that Georgia is an inventor. Secrets like
why Vivian tried to commit suicide twice when Georgia
appeared to demonstrate she wasn't just a beauty queen? And
why is Vivian estranged from her sister? What results is a
community rocked by secrets kept and secrets revealed.
Interwoven with humor and frivolity, THE TIARA CLUB takes
readers on a journey through the inner workings of a small
town, the quirky characters you meet along the way and the
joys and hardships that result from secrets kept. This is a
fun and fast-paced summer read!
A novel full of Southern charm, characters, food, and
the difficulties of keeping secrets in a small town
Georgia Elliot grew up in Ocean Sands, a small Gulf town
full of Southern charm—and a super-efficient grapevine. So
the few secrets she's managed to keep are precious,
including that she's the inventor of TV's hottest new
kitchen gadget, the Miracle Chef. A second-generation
beauty queen, Georgia turns to women she knows she can
trust to keep her secret from her controlling society Mama:
the Tiara Club. All the members are veterans of the pageant
circuit, but they've just admitted one woman who doesn't
fit in—Sierra Riley, a Yankee who's never taped her breasts
or smeared glue on her butt to wow the judges. And this
year the Tiara Club is determined to help Sierra win the
coveted Shrimp Queen crown. Add in an impending wedding and
the Club's attempts to keep Georgia's secret, and the
members of the Tiara Club have all they can do to hold on
to their poise, their friendships, and their sense of humor.
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