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

“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 would happily recommend
Shoe Addicts Anonymous
to anyone who loves shoes . . . or to smart, funny, realistic women.”

—Jennifer Weiner, author of
In Her Shoes
and
The Guy Not Taken

“Readers will root for these four plucky women. Like the designer shoes that pepper its pages, this book is pleasing and stylish. This frothy confection is sure to fly off the shelves this summer.”

—Booklist

“I was hooked from the first page and read it in one sitting—I couldn’t put it down. . . .
Shoe Addicts Anonymous
was a pleasure from start to finish.”

—Marian Keyes, bestselling author of
Anybody Out There?

“Enough heart (and sole) for beach readers and foot fetishists alike!”

—Entertainment Weekly

“Harbison creates vivid, convincing characters and handles them well.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Start to finish—or heel to toe, as the case may be—
Shoe Addicts Anonymous
is an entertaining read.”

—Memphis Flyer

“I read it addictively (ignored my children, forgot to eat) in one sitting.”

—Valerie Frankel, author of
Thin Is the New Happy

Secrets of a
Shoe
Addict

Also by Beth Harbison

Shoe Addicts Anonymous

Secrets of a
Shoe
Addict

Beth Harbison

ST. MARTIN’S GRIFFIN
New York

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

SECRETS OF A SHOE ADDICT
. Copyright © 2008 by Beth Harbison. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

www.stmartins.com

The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:

Harbison, Elizabeth M.

Secrets of a shoe addict / Beth Harbison.—1st ed.

     p.   cm.

ISBN-13: 978-0-312-34826-7

ISBN-10: 0-312-34826-6

1. Female friendship—Fiction.  2. Shoes—Fiction.  3. Chick lit.  I. Title.

PS3558.A564S43 2008

813’.54—dc22

2008010612

ISBN-13: 978-0-312-34827-4 (pbk.)

ISBN-10: 0-312-34827-4 (pbk.)

First St. Martin’s Griffin Edition: June 2009

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To the man who is honestly the love of my life,
and the best friend and husband a girl could have,
John Harbison.

And to my children, Paige and Jack Harbison,
who make me so proud
.

Acknowledgments