Table Manners

The star of Mia King''s "entertaining"(Seattle Times) debut novel Good Things is back-and she''s got a full plate.

Deidre McIntosh is everyone''s favorite go-to person. She seems so successful, so capable, so just plain perfect, with a popular cooking show, her own line of cakes and cookies, and an ideal relationship with Kevin Johnson-considered one of the most desirable men in Seattle.

Then Kevin''s ex-fiancée, sultry magazine publisher Sabine Durant, suddenly appears, and Deidre needs help. Already intimidated by Kevin''s glamorous, moneyed world-and his sister, who wants Deidre out of Kevin''s life-she fears she''s no match for Sabine. And the go-to girl must figure out where to go next before the tablecloth is pulled out from under her...