: From Beignets to Breakdowns: The Real Tea Behind My New Novel Let me set the scene: four girlfriends in New Orleans. Café du Monde in the morning, daiquiris by noon, and dirty little secrets flying by 6 p.m. Sound like a vacation? Wrong. It’s the beginning of my new novel Booked & Bothered —and yes, it’s loosely based on real energy . Now before anybody starts clutching their pearls or texting the group chat, let me say this: if you think it’s about you… it probably is. But don’t worry, names were changed to protect the guilty. Maybe. It All Started With Beignets… and a Side of Betrayal I was eating powdered sugar-covered lies with my morning coffee when I said, “You know what? Somebody needs to write about this kind of trip.” Not the Instagram version where everyone’s smiling in sundresses—but the real, raw, “Why did we even invite her?” kind of vacation. Because let’s be honest—every friend group has that one person who’s got drama packed right next to...