Book Excerpt...
Chapter 1
 
“You are bringing ruin to my department,” says Megan, her bosom oozing from the top of her dress. Her words suspend in the air, cartoon-like, then fall in perfect, enunciated syllables onto the pink area rug. Heat rises to my neck and face.
 
The regulation six-by-eight community college office, windows shut against a rare October breeze in the still air of Phoenix, reminds me of a well-bred English woman’s home, all chintz and ruffles, rose slip-covered chairs and English country prints. It smells of musty pillows and talcum powder, a product Megan uses with abandon. Once I caught her with a powder puff half-way to her armpit.
 
What a drama queen! Ruin? What did I do? I’m blank.
 
Megan lifts her chin for a power peer-down over the top of her glasses. I move forward in my chair.
 
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"Just read Gossip.com and Boomerang and started Stressed in Scottsdale – Marcia you are amazing, I couldn’t put them down, please keep on writing, you are a funny, thoughtful, talented, amazing addition to our world and I am honored to call you my friend!"  E. Lynn Lanoue

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The beautiful, shiny people of Scottsdale receive another hilarious send-up by Marcia Fine (her first book, GOSSIP.COM, infiltrated the world of the fashionistas with a deft hand.)

Jeanne, a part-time English professor, lives just on the outskirts of fabulous wealth, over-the-top parties and the right zip code. Fortunately, she has generous friends who invite her into the intrigue of nudist colonies and posh Sedona getaways while she and her hard-working doctor husband live in the real world of snotty bosses and grown children living at home -- in this case, a slacker son and his pregnant girlfriend.

Fraught with one-liners that will give you the giggles for days, BOOMERANG sluices through the phony-baloney silliness of Scottsdale society to reveal what's true. Excellent poolside reading, goes great with margaritas!