The Devil in the Junior League is a wickedly delicious romp in the lives of Texas society women. The Willow Creek Junior League allows only the most refined, St. John's knit-wearing members. This is a club full of unspoken rules -- diamonds should never be worn before dinner, and a lady should never wear a watch after 6 p.m., lest people think she is worried about time.

So, when our narrator, Fredericka Mercedes Hildebrand Ware (aka Frede), gets caught up in circumstances that require her to mentor an unlikely white-trash Junior League candidate, the unfortunate subject of an overpriced and excessively extravagant diamond watch comes into play. No diamonds before 6, and no watches after 6? Well, yes. There is no place for diamond-encrusted timepieces for the ladies of the Willow Creek Junior League.

Linda Francis Lee's latest novel is an unapologetic frolic through obnoxious Southern society life. Don't dismiss this as mere chick lit -- we've got a modern gal entrenched in Southern life, not looking for Mr. Right, and with no Boss to report to.

Of course, a token gay friend does enter her realm and disrupt life as we know it, but the outcome is fairly unexpected.

Lee has crafted a purely escapist novel about society politics, politics and romance, with a twist of mystery and a sufficient number of double crosses.