



Trouble is, the execs also have their eyes on Mr. The Cooking Channel is looking for its next big star, and Gina is certain that she fits the bill. After years of hard work, the former runner-up Miss Teen Vidalia Onion is now the host of her own local Georgia public television show called Fresh Start, and she's dating the show's producer.īut when her show gets canceled-and she catches her boyfriend in flagrante delicto with the boss's wife-Gina realizes that she's meant for bigger and better things. Little Bitty Lies is a comic Southern novel about all the important things in life: marriage and divorce, mothers and daughters, friendship and betrayal, small-town secrets, and one woman's lifelong quest for home-and the perfect recipe for chicken salad.Ĭhef extraordinaire Gina Foxton doesn't expect anything to be handed to her on a platter. Mary Bliss's formerly staid existence careens into overdrive as she copes with an oversexed teenager, a mother-in-law with Ethel Merman delusions, and the sudden but delicious shock of finding herself pursued by two men: the next-door neighbor who's looking for a suitable second wife, and a dangerously attractive ex-cop who's looking for the truth about Parker McGowan. Then the lies start to snowball, until Parker turns up dead. Stunned and humiliated, a desperate Mary Bliss, left behind with her seventeen-year-old daughter, Erin, and a mountain of debt, decides to salvage what's left of her life by telling one little bitty lie.Īt first, Mary Bliss simply tells friends and family that Parker is out of town on a consulting job. In a suburban Atlanta neighborhood where divorce is as rampant as kudzu, Mary Bliss McGowan doesn't notice that her own marriage is in trouble until the summer night she finds a note from her husband, telling her he's gone-and taken the family fortune with him.
