What $3 Million Buys You in North Scottsdale Right Now

Sloane grew up in Paradise Valley. Her father developed two of the communities she now writes about, and she has been a member at two of the clubs she covers since before she could drive. She played Division I golf at USC, spent four years in New York at a magazine she declines to name, and came back because she missed the desert more than she expected to. She writes about the private club world with the ease of someone who has known these rooms her whole life, which gives her a kind of access and, on occasion, a kind of impatience with how seriously everyone takes it all.