Horrible Women, Wonderful Girls: A Jaycee Grayson Novel (The Jaycee Grayson Series)
“Addiction, reinvention, and the chaos of toxic workplaces — all wrapped in biting wit and unpredictable turns... Sipos’s prose crackles with energy, packing more into a single sentence than some manage on an entire page.” —BookLife at Publishers Weekly, Editor’s Pick
Winner of the Writer's Digest Book Awards Grand Prize, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Gold Medal for Humor, and Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Gold Medal (Regional Fiction)
Jaycee Grayson didn’t come to play.
Hollywood has made her temporarily unemployable, publicly radioactive, and just desperate enough to think that a world-famous doll company in the backroads of Wisconsin Bluff Country might offer a fresh start.
She thought wrong.
Behind the wholesome smiles of Wonderful Girls, Jaycee confronts a minefield of sickly sweet slogans, weaponized alliances, and an army of Prairie Karens guarding a billion-dollar brand story with professionally lacquered claws. The storybook facade of this dollhouse village masks long-held secrets—like whether the missing empress of Littleburgh’s lucrative legend ever existed at all.
Rallying a band of fellow misfits, Jaycee soon falls prey to the mysterious charms of the first place weird enough to feel like home—where digging for the truth may well betray a found family desperate for one good win. And imploding an already shaky romantic triangle with not one but two local lawmen might turn folks skilled at public judgment into a firing squad.
But when tragedy strikes at home, Jaycee must choose between retreating to a broken dream and exposing the very real rot beneath a pastel-perfect fantasy of female perfection beloved the world over.
With stiletto-sharp sarcasm, emotional grit, and a heroine who refuses to stay politely hammered down, Horrible Women, Wonderful Girls is a wickedly funny satire of small-town loyalties, toxic workplaces, and the price women pay for telling the truth—especially about each other.
Welcome to Littleburgh, Wisconsin, where performative sisterhood is up for performance review and corporate whistleblowing is bad for morale.
The Jaycee Grayson novels continue with The Girlfriend Guide to Negligent Homicide.
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