It Happened One Fight
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Publisher Description
From Entertainment Weekly writer Maureen Lee Lenker comes a swoony romantic comedy set in the world of 1930s film.
Joan Davis is a movie star, and a damned good actor, too. Unfortunately, Hollywood only seems to care when she stars alongside Dash Howard, Tinseltown’s favorite leading man and a perpetual thorn in Joan’s side. She’s sick of his hotshot attitude, his never-ending attempts to get a rise out of her—especially after the night he sold her out to the press on a studio-arranged date. She’ll turn her career around without him. She’s engaged to Hollywood’s next rising star, after all, and preparing to make the film that could finally get her taken seriously. Then, a bombshell drops: thanks to one of his on-set pranks gone wrong, Dash and Joan are legally married.
Reputation on the line, Joan agrees to star alongside Dash one last time and move production to Reno, where divorce is legal after a six-week residency. But between on-set shenanigans, fishing competitions at Lake Tahoe, and intimate moments leaked to the press, Joan begins to see another side to the man she thought she had all figured out, and it becomes harder and harder to convince the public—and herself—that her marriage to Dash is the joke it started out as.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Entertainment Weekly writer Lenker debuts with a delightful love letter to the screwball comedy that doubles as an exploration of Hollywood's golden age. Lone wolf Joan Davis (an homage to both Joan Crawford and Bette Davis) has clawed her way to stardom from Dust Bowl Oklahoma, rising above both early career bumps that earned her the label of "box-office poison" and the ire of gossip columnists. Now her engagement to British heartthrob Monty Smyth should cement her status as "Queen of Hollywood." However, thanks to a prank gone wrong from her he-man frequent costar Dash Howard (inspired by Clark Gable), Joan discovers that she's already married—to Dash. The studio moves their final picture together to Reno, where they'll be eligible for a speedy divorce, but when their explosive on-screen chemistry becomes an off-screen romance, Davis and Dash wonder if they should stay married after all. The setting is tremendously fun and well realized, and though Dash's petulant on-set behavior can be off-putting (and he never sufficiently atones), enemies-to-lovers fans will enjoy their dynamic. Unfortunately, a climactic revelation doesn't quite get its due and is brushed over on the way to a happy ending. Still, there's plenty to enjoy here—especially for film buffs.
Customer Reviews
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I usually struggle to read for long periods of time ,but the i became so invested with the story of Dash and Joan and the way the author wrote them that I couldn’t help but smile when I was reading this, their love for each other is so pure and sweet.