An account executive in a Mad Men world, Anna Wyatt is at a crossroads. Recently divorced, sheâs done a lot of emotional housecleaning, including a self-imposed dating sabbatical. But now that sheâs turned forty, sheâs struggling to figure out what her life needs. Brainstorming to win over an important new client, she discovers a self-help bookâBe the Heroine, Find Your Heroâthat offers her unexpected insights and leads her to a most unlikely place: a romance writersâ conference. If she can sign the Romance Cover Model of the Year Pageant winner for her campaignâand meet the author who has inspired her to take control of her lifeâsheâll 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 theyâve created. Yet Lincoln is only one of Annaâs 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 wantsâto be happy without guilt, to be accepted for herself, to love and to be loved, to just beâshe has to put herself first, accept her imperfections, embrace her passions, and finally be the heroine of her own story.
Liza Palmer is the internationally bestselling author of Conversations with the Fat Girl, Seeing Me Naked, A Field Guide to Burying Your Parents, More Like Her, and Nowhere but Home. An Emmy-nominated writer, she lives in Los Angeles, and is hard at work on her next novel and several film and television projects.