Brynn and Sebastian Hate Each Other
A Love Story
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She's a sunny morning-show host. He's a cynical ex-reporter. They're destined to hate each other . . . Aren't they?
Brynn Cornell has to be stuck in a nightmare. Just last week, she was riding high as cohost of the popular morning show Sunup. She's America's Ray of Sunshine--the girl-next-door beauty who drives up TV ratings while never exuding anything but her trademark positivity and poise. All it took was one huge on-air mistake to expose her snarky side to the world and make it all come crumbling down. Now she's back in her hometown of Adelaide Springs, Colorado, in a last-ditch attempt to convince viewers she's not the mean girl they think she is. All she has to do is apologize and capture some feel-good footage reminding everyone she's just a girl from humble beginnings who's grateful for her big break, and she might manage to preserve both her career and her image. But this town holds painful memories that she's not ready to face.
Sebastian Sudworth was on the fast track to the journalist hall of fame. A superstar reporter with a reputation for being in the center of the action, his fearless, relentless coverage of major events around the globe was winning him awards and accolades--until something snapped inside him and he vanished from the scene under mysterious circumstances. Sebastian sought refuge in tiny Adelaide Springs, working odd jobs and trying to blend in as a scruffy mountain town citizen.
When Sebastian is assigned to chauffeur Brynn around town, Brynn is sure he can see right through her carefully cultivated, sunny persona. But she's determined to do what it takes to maintain her image and save her career--so she'll just have to charm the socks off Sebastian the same way she charmed her viewers. Easier said than done. It's no picnic to play nice around someone you hate . . . especially when you might be crazy about them.
Author's Note: This slow-burn, low-spice/clean enemies-to-lovers rom-com is set in a small town full of quirky citizens and is packed with pop culture, witty banter, and a guaranteed Happily Ever After--provided they can resist the urge to throw each other off a Colorado mountainside first. After all, Brynn (you probably won't like her at first) is desperately trying to save her career and Sebastian (who's hiding from his own demons) really just wants to be left alone to sing karaoke in peace.
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Turner (The Do-Over) charms in a squeaky clean contemporary driven by a battle of wits between journalists. After morning show host Brynn Cornell is caught disparaging her tiny Colorado hometown of Adelaide Springs on a hot mic, she must do damage control before the powers that be capitulate to those calling for her firing on social media. Her solution: grab a cameraman and head back to Adelaide Springs more than two decades after she left to make nice with the town's citizens. It just so happens that Sebastian Sudworth, an internationally renowned journalist who disappeared from the public eye for mysterious reasons (later revealed as a mental health emergency), retired to Adelaide Springs. After the incensed town council agrees to let Brynn visit and film an apology, they assign Sebastian to supervise her. When the pair first meet they do, in fact, hate each other, but their animosity belies a different kind of heat. Then a local crisis changes the course of both Brynn and Sebastian's journalistic careers—and brings them closer together. In addition to the appealing and endearingly flawed protagonists, Turner delivers a strong supporting cast, especially cameraman Orly Hillill and generous town mayor Doc Atwater. Readers will long for a quick return to Adelaide Springs and its salt-of-the-earth citizens.
