Geri Imler

Gossip Guild is a book club mystery that explores what happens when the Queen Bee of a high-society charity guild is found dead at year's biggest fundraiser, and the suspect -- a quick-rising outsider -- has the means, motive, and a muddy past, but no memory of the moments before the murder.

Lillian Sinclair is shattered when her wealthy entrepreneur father purchases the nascent West Baden Springs Hotel, uprooting her from the only home she’s known. Determined to claim control of her life, Lillian immerses herself in her father’s world by devouring knowledge, strong-arming her way into business meetings, and pushing for responsibility. When fire destroys twelve years of work, Lillian takes the reins, building the “Eighth Wonder of the World” from the ashes. And yet, success can’t satiate Lillian’s growing sexual awakening or her craving for true emotional connection.  In the end, she’ll be forced to choose: fight for the rights to West Baden or embrace her long-silenced heart for a chance at real love.

When a wealthy shaving cream magnate’s wife and mistress are forced to cohabitate, they turn a blind eye to each other in order to advance their personal agendas. But when their dream man becomes their nightmare, they’ll need to form a most unlikely alliance in order to not only escape his volatile grasp, but to simply survive his demons.