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Anne Dayton and May Vanderbilt are the coauthors of Emily Ever After, a chick-lit novel about New York. Anne Dayton grew up in San Jose, California, and lives in Brooklyn. May Vanderbilt hails from Panama City, Florida, and now lives in San Francisco.

Lily Traywick thinks she must have been adopted. It’s easier than believing she’s actually related to Jane and Roland Traywick, her power-couple parents who own Traywick’s of San Francisco, the most chichi department store on the West Coast. While her parents party with Muccia in Milan and Gabbana in Paris, Lily hangs out at home in ratty jeans and an old T-shirt. She loves softball, guys, and Jesus, and she’s eager to make her own way in the world. Feeling that her life is on hold, she turns to her best friend Reagan Axness. Reagan, a fashionista who has it all, offers just the solution: a major life makeover.

Lily is soon dressing in the latest must-have fashions and pursuing a writing career. She’s even dating the “perfect” guy. But does he love her for who she really is? And will he be able to resist the tempting seductress who has her eye on him? As Lily’s old friends question her new way of life, and public scandal, family drama, and technological disasters add to her confusion, Lily is forced to consider whether her quest to have it all will cause her to lose everything that matters.

Hot off their debut success, Emily Ever After, “good-girl” chick-lit trailblazers Dayton and Vanderbilt return with a witty, refreshingly real story of a young woman’s adventures in the high-powered world of San Francisco high fashion.

Library Journal

Christian chick-lit authors Dayton and Vanderbilt (Emily Ever After) are back with Lily, who decides on a major life makeover. First, she trades her softball glove and jeans for fishnet stockings and flirting lessons. Then she starts writing an anonymous blog called Fashion Victim that gets picked up by the San Francisco Weekly but quickly becomes troubled when her editor spices up her columns without permission. Christian readers and fans of "good-girl" fiction will enjoy; those looking for fun and flirty chick lit should look elsewhere. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.