She wanted a quiet life, something mafia-free. But that was never going to be Thelma Miles's story.

St. Petersburg, Florida, 1944. When 18-year-old Thelma Miles joins a troupe of swimsuit models on a war bond tour, she believes she's escaped her past. Then she discovers she's stepped into the mafia's lair.

Her new boss Kathleen Young is obsessed with climbing the social ladder and only too happy to push Thelma into the oncoming train that is the Florida underworld. Until she, too, gets caught in the headlamps.

Together they hotfoot it out of town on a national war bond tour, but trouble follows them when Tampa's notorious crime boss makes Thelma an offer she can't refuse. Between Thelma's intermittent psychic premonitions and Kathleen's terrifying determination, these two form an unlikely alliance to prove that women can have it all.

Now if they can just make it to the end of the tour without murdering anyone. Else. Without murdering anyone else.

If you're a fan of Beatriz Williams's immersive historical worlds, Kate Quinn's complex heroines, and the dark humor of Gillian Flynn's psychological dramas, you will love Florida Girls and the entire Queenpin Chronicles series.