His despair over the end of his career is fueled by lingering trauma from an unstable childhood. Small-town atmosphere permeates bestseller Bailey's comedic contemporary visit to Port Jefferson, N.Y., where outstanding children's birthday clown Georgie Castle reconnects with her lifelong crush, Travis Ford, a former star professional baseball player sidelined by an injury. It’s a recipe for the perfect love story.” – Helena Hunting, New York Times bestselling author of Meet Cute Not only is it hilarious, it’s sweet, endearing, heartwarming and downright sexy. “Her voice feels as fresh and contemporary as a Netflix rom-com.” -Entertainment Weekly 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. What’s the harm? It’s not like it’s real. When she proposes a wild scheme-that they pretend to date, to shock her family and help him land a new job-he agrees. And then there's Georgie, his best friend’s sister, who is not a kid anymore. But he can’t even cross the street without someone recapping his greatest hits. Now he’s flipping houses to keep busy and trying to forget his glory days. Travis Ford was major league baseball’s hottest rookie when an injury ended his career. And who better to help demolish that image than the resident sports star and tabloid favorite? 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. Nobody’s asking the town clown out for a night of hot sex, that’s for sure. Living her best life means facing the truth: Georgie hasn’t been on a date since, well, ever. Phase four: put herself on the market (and stop crushing on Travis Ford!) Phase three: updates to her exterior (do people still wax?) Phase two: a gut-reno on her wardrobe (fyi, leggings are pants.) Phase one: new framework for her business (a website from this decade, perhaps?) She’s determined to fix herself up into a Woman of the World. Georgie loves planning children’s birthday parties and making people laugh, just not at her own expense.

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. The first in 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!

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