Release Date: May 28, 2024
About The Book:
Broke and orphaned near the close of WWII, 18-year-old Thelma Miles joins a troupe of touring swimsuit models in an attempt to flee her criminal past, only to find she’s stepped into the mafia’s lair. When the head of the Florida underworld offers her everything she never knew she wanted, she must decide if she’ll forge a new future or return to the life she knows.
Against the backdrop of war, L.L. Kirchner’s Florida Girls weaves a complex tale of independence and interdependence among women doing what they can to survive and thrive in a society controlled by men. The women of the Florida Girls come together from many different backgrounds, form new friendships and strengthen old bonds in a world of crime and glamour that could get somebody killed at any moment.
About The Author:
L.L. Kirchner is an award-winning screenwriter and Pushcart-nominated author whose life and work as an expat in Asia became the basis of two memoirs—BLISSFUL THINKING: A Memoir of Overcoming the Wellness Revolution (2023), and AMERICAN LADY CREATURE: My Change in the Middle East. A Qatar Memoir. (2014, named one of Bustle’s “11 Books to Battle the Blues”).
Her forthcoming trilogy, the Queenpin Chronicles, will launch in 2024 with her debut novel, FLORIDA GIRLS.
Once simultaneously the religion editor for an LGBTQIA+ paper, dating columnist for an alt newsweekly, and bridal editor for a society rag, her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Salon, and The Rumpus among numerous other outlets. She lives in Florida with her favorite husband.
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