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. Its one of the steamiest romances on this list (Fix Her Up is the other. Nobody’s asking the town clown out for a night of hot sex, that’s for sure. This gender-reversed Pretty Woman won the 2018 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance. 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. A steamy, hilarious new romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey, perfect for fans of Christina Lauren and Sally Thorne!

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