Love, Camera, Action
A Novel
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Publisher Description
A scrappy TV director lands her big break only to go head-to-head with the surly yet sexy director of photography, in this page-turning romance perfect for fans of Ava Wilder and Tessa Bailey.
Up-and-coming TV director Cali Daniels knows sex. Well, okay, she knows how to shoot sex scenes, and she’s been hired to direct a highly anticipated steamy episode of the popular series The Demon. This job is her chance at a big-time career in the film and television industry—all she has to do is deliver an unparalleled show using her hard-knock know-how and ample creativity.
If only the director of photography—effortlessly sexy Jory Blair—would stop shutting her ideas down at every turn. Jory has spent years cultivating his career as an A-list director of photography, but a recent health scare has him rethinking his life and craving the director spot. Now this creative newbie, who he can’t get out of his mind, wants to change the look of his show. Even worse, the friction between them is sparking into blistering chemistry.
As collaborating takes on a whole new meaning, and the show’s producer not-so-subtly suggests that Jory sabotage Cali in order to achieve his own goals, they’ll have to decide if chasing their dream jobs is worth losing the dream of a future together.
Fans of How to Fake It in Hollywood and Plot Twist will devour this steamy, enemies to lovers, workplace, debut romance.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Stark sets her clumsy workplace romance debut behind the scenes of a TV show. Paranormal soap opera The Demon has a PR problem after one of its directors says that the #MeToo movement has gone too far. In crisis management mode, and with no female directors already on their roster, producers bring in up-and-comer Cali Daniels to direct the next steamy episode. For Cali, getting people to take her seriously is hard enough as a woman and a newcomer to the industry—she doesn't need sexy DP Jory Blair questioning her every move. A recent health scare has left Jory more determined than ever to work his way up the Hollywood ladder, and he views Cali as an obstacle in his path. Despite their creative differences, Jory is immediately drawn to Cali's beauty and gumption, but he has a strict rule never to get romantically involved with his coworkers. The romantic tension between the two is palpable, but Stark's attempts to wrangle with the workplace romance trope in a post-#MeToo world fall flat, as when she has Jory worry that "he could be painted with the same brush as those reprehensible creeps" when he acts on his feelings for Cali. Readers seeking a peak behind Hollywood's curtain will be better served elsewhere.
