Housemoms

Three grown women find escape and camaraderie on sorority row in a delightfully exhilarating novel about fresh starts, whether you want them or not, by New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster. How fast can charity fundraiser CeCe Barclays unimpeachable society life come tumbling down? One minute shes speaking before Chicagos glitterati. The next, her financier husband is wanted for embezzlement. Her assets seized and her fall mortifyingly public, CeCe grasps for refugeand employmentas a sorority housemom at Eli Whitney University, her daughter Haydens alma mater. Tasked with preparing a statelybut in CeCes estimation shabbyhouse for rush, CeCe isnt the only one navigating a new life. Janelle Smiths last experience as a housemother was at a Jersey strip club, where she witnessed a mob hit. To keep her safe until trial, WITSEC finds her a new identity and a housemom position on Eli Whitneys sorority row, where Janelles conflict mediation and tolerance for high estrogen levels make her a star employee. For Hayden, a barista at a hopelessly hip off-campus caf, the goal is to flee everything Barclay: the money, the scandals, and the exasperating family nonsense. What next? Though CeCes not ready to sell her Chanel bag, shes open to reinvention. Hayden might even admit she needs help in her new independent life. And Janelles due for a personal triumph. But big challenges loom between the alabaster columns of Eli Whitney, unexpected and dicey enough to bring them all togetherif only to keep them from falling completely apart.