RICKY
HART wants to the get the hell out of small-town Arizona to escape the fate of
generations of women in her family – a boring, nothing future.
Inspired by Basia Johnson, a penniless cook who married into
the Johnson and Johnson fortune, Ricky sets in motion a plan to get inside a
rich old man’s house. Once there, she will do the rest. She is twenty-two years
old, blonde and unashamedly brazen.
And she is ready to make a deal with the Devil.
What she hasn’t counted on is seventy-year-old SANDFORD
KEANE, the Arizona Copper King, a notorious sonofabitch with an agenda of
his own, and a family with a long history of other ambitious wives.
One
of them is SUZANNE NELSON-DRUMMOYNE-GRAFF-CARMEL, a serial marrier who has
finally found love. Unfortunately it is not with her latest husband. At war
with her mother-in-law, PHILIPPA, a legendary old viper and trophy wife of
another era, Suzanne is thirty-seven and terrified that she is about to hit her
“use-by” date.
From the richest enclaves of Connecticut and Manhattan to
the wilds of the Arizona desert and New Mexico, the novel brings these women
together on a raunchy, life-changing encounter that will make them question the
roles they have chosen for themselves, and the high price they have all paid to live the pampered life of
a rich man’s wife.
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About the
Author:
Billie Morton is a British screenplay writer and film maker who
originally set out to make documentaries about tribal life. Along the way she
took a detour to California where she spent many years filming the natives and
their social customs.
How To Un-Marry a Millionaire is her first novel. It was inspired by meeting young –
and not so young – women across the globe all busily performing a colourful
array of mating dances. Some were dancing as fast as they could. Others
were looking to take a little time and add love to the dream. And some were
grabbing the microphone at the nearest karaoke bar to belt out Tina Turner’s
classic – What’s Love Got To Do With It?
These were the ones she chose to
write about from her new home in the rainforest of northern Australia.
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