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Fix Her Up

by Tessa Bailey

A pretend romance with real stakes

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  • Critical praise

    Praised by Entertainment Weekly as fresh and contemporary

    Entertainment Weekly praises the book's voice as fresh and contemporary, comparing it to a Netflix romantic comedy.

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A pretend romance with real stakes

Georgie Castle’s work planning children’s parties is a poor fit for the image her family has of her, so she sets out to reshape how they see her. Her plan joins forces with Travis Ford, a former baseball star now flipping houses, whose own career change leaves him contending with reminders of his past. Their pretend-dating arrangement connects two reinvention projects: Georgie’s effort to be taken seriously and Travis’s attempt to move beyond his baseball reputation. The contemporary romance brings family expectations, work, and the shift from childhood familiarity to adult attraction into the same scheme.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in contemporary romance built around a fake-dating setup.
  • Readers who enjoy stories about family expectations and changing how others see you.
  • Readers drawn to romances involving a former sports star and a home-renovation setting.

Themes

Reinvention and self-imageFamily expectationsCareer changePretend dating and attraction

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Book overview

A spicy, hilarious HGTV-inspired romantic comedy trilogy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer and Hook, Line, and Sinker!

Georgette Castle's family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven't taken her seriously since. Frankly, she's over it. Georgie loves planning children's birthday parties and making people laugh, just not at her own expense. She's determined to fix herself up into a Woman of the World... whatever that means.

Phase one: new framework for her business (a website from this decade, perhaps?)

Phase two: a gut-reno on her wardrobe (fyi, leggings are pants.)

Phase three: updates to her exterior (do people still wax?)

Phase four: put herself on the market (and stop crushing on Travis Ford!)

Living her best life means facing the truth: Georgie hasn't been on a date since, well, ever. Nobody's asking the town clown out for a night of hot sex, that's for sure. Maybe if people think she's having a steamy love affair, they'll acknowledge she's not just the "little sister" who paints faces for a living. And who better to help demolish that image than the resident sports star and tabloid favorite?

Travis Ford was major league baseball's hottest rookie when an injury ended his career. Now he's flipping houses to keep busy and trying to forget his glory days. But he can't even cross the street without someone recapping his greatest hits. Or making a joke about his... bat. And then there's Georgie, his best friend's sister, who is not a kid anymore. When she proposes a wild scheme--that they pretend to date, to shock her family and help him land a new job--he agrees. What's the harm? It's not like it's real. But the girl Travis used to tease is now a funny, full-of-life woman and there's nothing fake about how much he wants her...

"Her voice feels as fresh and contemporary as a Netflix rom-com." --Entertainment Weekly

"Fix Her Up ticks all my romance boxes. Not only is it hilarious, it's sweet, endearing, heartwarming and downright sexy. It's a recipe for the perfect love story."- Helena Hunting, New York Times bestselling author of Meet Cute

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