Title: Millionaire Ladies Club
Author: Lottie Morgan
Date: 2020
Publisher: Mixed Bag
Quote: "I understood he couldn't spoil me quite in the way I did him, but every girl wants...[a] little appreciation of me and not just my money."
Lily has a peculiar problem. Though described as an adult who's been successful in "high-end fashion design," she's never had the experience more confident women know as dating.
Don't laugh. It can happen if a girl put all of her time into fast-forwarding through school and making a business venture work, if she didn't start dating while living at home or didn't like schoolboys while she was a schoolgirl. Maybe Lily was a late bloomer--like me; I had wholesome church school sort of dates galore, in college, during which foreign exchange students actually told me about their countries and boys confided to me about their crushes on my friends, but men didn't see me as a woman until I really was one. Maybe she grew up too fast, like Veronica in those old comic books we used to read; Veronica was actually Betty's best friend, a nice girl with good intentions, but because she looked like the quintessence of "jailbait," men and boys alike were afraid of her; she got most of her information about how teenaged boys behave by buddying up with Betty's boyfriend, even competing with Betty for attention, then feeling hurt and indignant that anybody thought she was poaching. Anyway, for whatever reason, Lily's always been able to pick up men by spending money on them, but, to nobody's surprise but Lily's, that tends to attract jerks who take her money and don't even invite her to go somewhere now and then.
So, being the confident entrepreneurial type, Lily organizes a club for "women like me," gets four instant e-friends' advice, and starts consulting them before she throws money at the male model for her next fashion show whom she finds attractive. Backing off, giving him a chance to notice that he wants a date, is all it takes for men to notice that Lily is not only rich but also attractive.
A few women out there share Lily's problems. More wish they did. Anyway this piece of frivolous fiction should have widespread appeal. I found it on the insipid side, but that's as much because I never had this particular fantasy as because it's a short, hastily written novelette that seems to have been created just to feed into Amazon's marketing plan (write a short e-book to give away as publicity for your full-length book). If you like reliving the excitement of building up to the first date, this book's for you.
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