Book Club Boyfriend
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Their messiest chapter might actually be their best one yet.
Blair Kellermoon—blond, bubbly, former rom-com star—has always worried no one would take her seriously as a producer. And with her latest film project stalled indefinitely, she’s starting to think desperate times call for desperate measures. Enter bestselling author Jack Branksome: beautiful writer, awful person. Yet somehow he and Blair have become unlikely text-friends, despite his very public refusal to participate in her celebrity book club. And he’s confessed he’s dealing with his own nightmare: the hotly anticipated novel he can’t seem to write.
So Blair does something unthinkable: she invites him to stay at her pool house. Now they’ve become two misfits bonding over movie nights, cheesy pasta, befriending wild crows, and solving the mystery of the weirdly green pool. Blair was sure she knew exactly how her story would end. But Jack might be proof that it’s only just beginning ...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Sparks fly between an author and a Hollywood darling in this heartfelt rom-com from Holiday (Into the Woods). "Prickly" bestseller Jack Branksome and rom-com actor-turned-producer Blair Kellermoon get off to a bumpy start when he turns down her offer to feature his latest novel in her celebrity book club, then dismisses her "little projects" in an interview with the New Yorker. Later, he texts her to apologize: "I made an observation that sounded reasonable when it came out of my mouth but when committed to paper and stripped of context sounded less than ideal." Though Blair doubts the authenticity of his apology, she and Jack develop first a truce, then a genuine rapport via text messages. This culminates in Blair inviting Jack to fly from Minnesota to her Los Angeles estate to stay at her pool house to work on his stalled second book. In person, their unlikely friendship only deepens, with Blair helping Jack break through his writer's block and Jack providing company to her as a recently divorced empty nester. It's entertaining to see them fight their chemistry over "not date" nights watching television at home and eating mouthwateringly described dinners together. Holiday's characterization is the true joy here, with leads who are endearingly imperfect and carrying the weight of complex pasts. It's a delight.
