Horrible Women, Wonderful Girls: A Jaycee Grayson Novel

She left Hollywood to escape the boy’s club.

In a small Midwestern town, she discovers that women are playing the better game.


After hard-won success gives way to a spectacular public fall, exiled entertainment executive Jaycee Grayson trades the red carpet for rural Wisconsin—drawn by the promise of anonymity and a life that doesn’t eat its own.


What she finds instead is a fiercely loyal community, a global doll empire with a missing empress, and a culture of “Midwest nice” that masks a pastel-perfect fairytale built on a billion-dollar lie.


As Jaycee plots her big comeback, she becomes entangled in a three-way romance, adopts a found family weird enough to feel like home, and gets pulled into a mystery lurking behind this fairytale façade threatening everything she never knew she wanted.


In Littleburgh, loyalty is currency, truth is negotiable, and an army of Prairie Karens runs the table.

No one’s ever challenged them.


Until now.


Narrated with sharp wit and emotional precision by Nadia Marshall, Horrible Women, Wonderful Girls blends dark comedy, satirical mystery, and literary suspense.


Perfect for listeners who enjoy:


- sharp, character-driven satire 
- corporate intrigue and power plays 
- feminist fiction with teeth 
- small-town secrets and big lies 
- dark humor with emotional depth 


A Writer’s Digest Grand Prize winner, IPPY Gold Medalist, IBPA and Foreword INDIES Humor Finalist, and Indie Author Project selection, this breakout debut has been praised for its fearless voice, razor-edged humor, and unforgettable heroine.


Welcome to Littleburgh.

Where everything is fine.

Unless it isn’t.