Four Queens of the Buttonbush Museum: A Novel

In 1950, the Buttonbush Museum is circling the financial drain, and Irene Pickett-a sassy farmer's wife from rural California-is determined to stop the flush. Tired of being typecast as the housewife queen of pickling and laundry, Irene has something to prove. Enter The Four Queens: Irene and three other firebrand women ready to take on the museum's bottomless budget issues.

The biggest obstacle is fellow Queen, Odilia Delgado, who's more concerned with slapping her name on museum buildings ...