The Perfect Dress

The Perfect Dress is a thirty year saga of an orphaned girl growing up in Chicago, San Francisco and Hawaii. The main character, Mary Leigh Worth, is a bridal designer wannabe possessing fantastic skills in the field of design and creation but sabotages her career for a drop-dead gorgeous Egyptian-American airline pilot whom she cannot have due to a pre-arranged marriage he must fulfill. This news annihilates her and thus a downward spiral of destruction and despair emerge with plenty of incorrect life choices and colorful nightlife leading to rehabilitation and two unnecessary marriages, a bout with the FBI and murder. Set to the music of the 60's,70's and 80's, it is a book geared toward the female baby boomer or anyone that appreciates the oldies' music of the times.