Diary of a South Beach Party Girl

South Beach in the late 1990s is a town of blink-and-youll-miss-em nightclubs populated by celebrities models mobsters heiresses drug dealers drag queens and fun seekers of all stripes. Its a place where the famous come to party like locals the locals party like rock stars behind velvet ropes and the press is savvy enough to know what not to report. Rachel Baum is a sheltered career-oriented everygirl when she moves to South Beach from her quiet Miami suburb searching for a life less ordinary. Quickly making friends among SoBes most exclusive scenesters she spends her days building a career and her nights building a reputation. But in a town where friends become enemies faster than highs become hangovers the life less ordinary turns into more than Rachel bargained for. As she pursues the endless party in penthouses dive bars after-hours clubs and cocaine speakeasies Rachel struggles to balance her goals and ambitions with the decadence and excess -- especially her drug-fueled on-again off-again relationship with Yale-graduate-turned-addict John Hood -- that threaten to destroy everything shes always worked for. With tremendous wit and razor-sharp insight Diary of a South Beach Party Girl portrays the innermost sanctums of South Beachs privileged Beautiful People through the eyes of a no longer innocent heroine.