Fix Her Up

Georgie Castle knows exactly how her small hometown sees her: as the sweet, harmless youngest daughter of the family construction business, the girl who runs a children's party-clown service and has never quite been taken seriously as a grown woman. Travis Ford was the town's golden boy — a Major League baseball star whose career ended in injury, and who has come home adrift, drinking, and nursing a very public fall from grace.

When Georgie strikes a deal to become Travis's fake girlfriend — a way to rehabilitate his image and to prove, to her family and herself, that she is more than the baby of the household — the arrangement predictably refuses to stay fake. What starts as mutual convenience turns into scorching chemistry and a genuine reckoning with what each of them actually wants.

The first novel in Tessa Bailey's Hot & Hammered series is a steamy, funny small-town romantic comedy about being underestimated, asking for what you deserve, and the messy work of letting someone see the real you.