Trophies

Actress and screenwriter Thomas's first novel lifts the veil on the already well-exposed world of Hollywood trophy wives. Each of these wives has found wealth through marriage: Marion Zane, the new money socialite and group's queen bee; Lyndy Montgomery Wallert, the fading old guard; Patti Fink, the octogenarian-marrying gold digger; Pepper Papadopoulos, the Southern belle turned Greek heiress; Maya Hanson, the supermodel and Page Six staple; and Claire Price, the small town ingenue. The women are both friends and each other's competition, but their beautifully coiffed exteriors are deceiving. Lyndy finds her family name no longer carries the same weight. Patti leaves her husband asleep each night and goes in search of sexual satisfaction. Pepper humiliates her husband with her superior business sense. Maya must weigh her movie-star husband's desire for a family with her modeling career. Claire's new life isn't living up to the ""Secret Rainbow Princess Promise"" she made herself back home in Winamac, Ind. And after Marion discovers her husband cheated on her, her cushy lifestyle disintegrates and she must reshape her universe using only her Black Book, and her fight to reclaim her spot atop the social ladder calls into question who the real moguls are: the husbands or their wives?