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Petite, glamorous, and charming, Jessie “Chubbie” Miller was a remarkable woman: aviatrix, thrill-seeker, heartbreaker. No adventure was too wild for her, no danger too extreme. And all over the world, men adored her. When young Jessie left Australia and her newspaperman husband in 1927, full of ambition and spunk, she couldn’t have known that she'd become the first woman to complete an England-to-Australia flight (with her little black dress packed in her flight bag, just in case), or befriend Amelia Earhart—even flying with her in the first women's air derby. And she certainly couldn’t have predicted that five years later she'd find herself in Miami at the center of one of the most notorious and controversial murder trials in U.S. history. Prize-winning author Carol Baxter now tells the story of the daring Jessie Miller. With details straight out of a soap opera, Baxter spins a spellbinding story of an extraordinary woman—an international celebrity during the golden age of aviation—and her passionate and spirited life.