While Carrie Bradshaw was in Manhattan looking for sex in the city, the Dixie Virgins were looking for love, marriage, and a baby carriage.

Sweet, sassy, and laugh aloud funny, this 7-book series follows seven women from the Deep South who met at a summer camp for girls when they were in pigtails and remained best friends through the years.

Now in their early twenties - some of them in college, some in new jobs - they've all set out to snare a man while staying true to the rule Bea made that long-ago summer: If the boys from Camp Geronimo come over, don't let them near your Virginia.

In book one, Belinda, an old-fashioned girl who never had the advantage of a college education, lands a job as nanny and falls in love with her boss. But getting him to fall in love with her requires a lot of scheming by the Dixie Virgins.