The author of Conversations with a Fat Girl--optioned for HBO--returns
with the hilarious and heartfelt story of a woman who must learn how to
be the heroine of her own life--a journey that will teach her priceless
lessons about love, friendship, family, work, and her own heart.
An account executive in a Mad Men world, Anna Wyatt is at a
crossroads. Recently divorced, she's done a lot of emotional
housecleaning, including a self-imposed dating sabbatical. But now that
she's turned forty, she's struggling to figure out what her life needs.
Brainstorming to win over an important new client, she discovers a
self-help book--Be the Heroine, Find Your Hero--that offers her
unexpected insights and leads her to a most unlikely place: a romance
writers' conference. If she can sign the Romance Cover Model of the Year
Pageant winner for her campaign--and meet the author who has inspired
her to take control of her life--she'll win the account.
For Anna, taking control means taking chances, including getting to know
Sasha, her pretty young colleague on the project, and indulging in a
steamy elevator ride with Lincoln Mallory, a dashing financial
consultant she meets in the hotel. When the conference ends, Anna and
Lincoln must decide if their intense connection is strong enough to
survive outside the romantic fantasy they've created. Yet Lincoln is
only one of Anna's dilemmas. Now that her campaign is off the ground,
others in the office want to steal her success, and her alcoholic
brother, Ferdie, is spiraling out of control.
To have the life she wants--to be happy without guilt, to be accepted
for herself, to love and to be loved, to just be--she has to put herself
first, accept her imperfections, embrace her passions, and finally be
the heroine of her own story.
