title: Secrets of a Shoe Addict
author:  Beth Harbison 
description: Harbison's witty, fast-paced follow-up to last year's <i>Shoe Addicts Anonymous</i> chronicles the foibles of four women brought together byin this casenot shoes but debt. During a fateful trip to Las Vegas as chaperones of a school band trip, Loreen Murphy accidentally hires a male prostitute on the PTA credit card; pastor's-wife-with-a-past Abbey Walsh gets blackmailed by an ex-con ex-boyfriend; and usually restrained PTA president Tiffany Dreyer purchases thousands of dollars worth of clothes that she can't return. Enter the zaftig Sandra Vanderslice, who, before she started her shoe-importing business, made a living as a phone sex operator. She suggests her sister, Tiffany, hop on that gravy train to pay down her credit card bills. Loreen and Abbey join up, and soon the ladies are raking in dough and trying to hide their new source of income from husbands, kids and their snoopy nemesis, the cartoonishly judgmental Deb Leventer, who wants to take over the PTA. Harbison's writing is zingy and funny, and her light touch allows her to get away with the ridiculous situations in this nutty beach read. <i>(June)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: ### Praise for _Secrets of a Shoe Addict_
  
  
  
  
  
  “What happens to three parent chaperones during a student trip makes it hard
  for their transgressions to stay in Sin City. How they recover, while learning
  what a good pair of heels can do for your psyche, is entertaining and fun.”
  
  
  _—The Charlotte Observer_
  
  
  
  
  
  “Harbison’s witty, fast-paced follow-up to last year’s _Shoe Addicts
  Anonymous_ chronicles the foibles of four women brought together by—in this
  case—not shoes but debt. . . . Zingy and funny.”
  
  
  _—Publishers Weekly_
  
  
  
  
  
  “This is an engaging story filled with humor, angst, and down-to-earth
  problems that any of us could face. . . . How they solve these problems, how
  they developed from them, and the conclusion make for great reading.”
  
  
  _—Affaire de Coeur_
  
  
  ### Praise for _Shoe Addicts Anonymous_
  
  
  
  
  
  “Kick off your Keds (unless you’re driving) and meet a motley group of D.C.
  women who bond over designer shoes. It’s chick lit with heart and sole.”
  
  
  _—People_ magazine
  
  
  
  
  
  “I w