Tea and Scandal at Seven

By Larnette Phillips

The Southern Shady Ladies have moved to Texas—and as you might expect, there’s an uproar in the State of Texas such as you’ve never seen! The little tiny town the ladies now reside in, well, it’s done been woke up!

Miss Trudy Philpot took her money and bought her a Texas ranch and a brand new Hummer.  The price of gas and oil don’t bother the rich and she’s rich, let me tell you!  Of course, where one Southern Shady Lady goes, the others follow.  Miss Flossy Tringle couldn’t wait to survey the land for all the eligible men in Texas.  My God, do you realize how big the State of Texas is?  Well, Lord have mercy, you know that’s where there’s got to be a whole lotta men to choose from!  She rolled up her curlers, got her some new false eyelashes, closed up her business and prepared to move it and herself across country.

Miss Tova Devereaux said Texas could probably use an attorney with her fine skills, especially when it comes to catching crooks, dirty politicians and sleazy televangelists.  I imagine the state of Texas is full of ‘em.  And if that’s true, well, then it’s prime ground for Miss Lacy Bell-Durning, who convinced her husband Mathew that Texas is a new mission field waiting to be led to Jesus.  Trust me, if the lost souls are in Texas, she aims to find ‘em and she’ll be the first to tell you that hell won’t hold all the dirty televangelists on the wrong side of the pulpit.  Now Miss Jessica Fleabottom is a retired town librarian.  When she retired, she turned her books into more than fantasy and if there’s gossip, she not only can catch it, she can send it around town faster than the internet ever thought about.  So, she, too, packed up herself, her gossip and her new boobs courtesy of ole Doc Cradlehopper and set out for the tried and true state.  Miss Portia Ketchum always does seem like the quieter one of the bunch but then again, I’ve always said, it’s those quiet ones you have to watch.  Miss Bessie Mae McCutcheons has been Miss Trudy’s maid for longer than she can remember so they’re pulling her little Doodle Bug behind the Hummer and set off for Texas.  And if tea and scandal isn’t enough, then you might want to catch their little escapades—when they have their little adventures out in town.  Some folk want to run when they see them coming but then realize that if they do, they’ll miss the most fun they’ve ever had.  Just ask about Miss Flossy and Crazy Ace, or the six-inch hatpin and the pea shooter one of them carries, not to mention the time Miss Bessie Mae got them stuck in the mud in Miss Trudy’s Hummer.  So, there you have it!  Life with the ladies—

TEA AND SCANDAL AT SEVEN is a book series, published twice a year
(Christmas and Spring of every year) that chronicles the scandal, the
gossip, the escapades and adventures of those crazy Southern Shady
Ladies of Texas.

ADVANCE ORDERS:

TEA AND SCANDAL AT SEVFEN (Book One) debuts Christmas 2009.  Books
will ship on or around December 5, 2009.
Retail price (per book) is $15.00 (US) and includes all shipping and handling.
Please remit check or money orders payable to:

Larnette Phillips
7877 Highway 4
Jay, Florida  32565

Please specify if you want the book autographed.  Additionally, if you
are sending this book as a gift, please specify recipient’s full name
and whether book is shipping to you or recipient and provide the
appropriate mailing addresses.

The fun has just begun!