In this town, nice gets you nowhere...

As a junior associate at the most sought-after marital mediation and divorce boutique in Beverly Hills, Monica is part mediator, part lawyer, part marriage therapist and all celebrity babysitter. She's so good at her job that she's handling the firm's superstar clients Cameron and Lydia Johnson--Hollywood It couple Camydia. Although things would be easier if the only other female associate would stop sabotaging her career, and if the drama queen she refers to as mother wasn't moving back home!

When the latest Camydia scandal breaks wide open, it's time for Monica to save the day, to don her Prada cape and matching bag, then wreak havoc on her office rival and run circles around the paparazzi.

Everyone's watching to see what Monica will do... hey are those claws on that French manicure?

Poonam Sharma is just your average Indian girl from Long Island. But don't let the buttoned-up nature of her other career as a real estate developer fool you; she has yet to settle on a city, a man or a favorite order at Starbucks. She likes to mix it up. Her first book, The Harvard Entrepreneurs Club Guide To Starting Your Own Business, was published by John Wiley & Sons Inc. in 1999 while she was a senior at Harvard College. After graduating from a boarding school called Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and earning her bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard College, she worked at a startup, a nonprofit venture catalyst, a private equity firm and in investment research and institutional sales in New York and Los Angeles. She also spent a year traveling the world alone to research her second nonfiction title, Chasing Success, which was published in the fall of 2004.

Girl Most Likely To was her third book and first novel. It draws heavily on her own trials and tribulations as an Indian-American woman balancing the worlds of cultural conservatism, interracial romance and high finance in Manhattan. Much like her main character Vina, the author has never felt like she was fifty percent Indian and fifty percent American. Poonam has always chosen to believe that she is a full two-hundred percent. Poonam finished up her MBA at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 2007, and currently lives in New York, where she grew up.