In this sweet and clever Hollywood romance, an anxious, clumsy costume designer and a sexy television superstar find themselves falling for each other, in spite of the Twitter hashtags and angry fans trying to keep them apart. Making her debut in adult fiction, Jacqueline Firkins, a costume designer and author of two young adult novels (How Not to Fall in Love; Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things), puts her theater skills to use in Marlowe Banks, Redesigned.
Marlowe Banks was a costume designer in the New York theater world--until the play she was working on flopped and her engagement fell apart. She panics and flees to Los Angeles, much to her parents' dismay, taking a job as a lowly costume production assistant on a high-budget television show starring Hollywood's favorite bad boy, Angus Gordon. But then, through a series of flukes, Marlowe ends up playing a small role in an episode of the show. After interacting with Angus more and finding confidence in the feedback she receives on her acting, Marlowe realizes that there's more to Angus than his sexy persona and that maybe she is capable of more than creating catastrophes.
Charming, funny and thoughtful, Marlowe Banks, Redesigned is both a romance and the story of a woman finding her own voice after her parents, previous relationships and workplaces have all squelched her. Fans of Katherine Center's The Bodyguard or Annabel Monaghan's Nora Goes Off Script are sure to love Marlowe Banks, Redesigned. --Jessica Howard, freelance book reviewer