When she was younger, Georgie Castle was in LOVE with Travis Ford, the handsome best friend of her older brother. Those feelings didn’t diminish when he went to play major league baseball; in fact, she was probably his biggest fan. No one could talk to her during his games, she knew all of his stats, and she even was well-versed on all of the gossip about his exploits.
But when an injury forces his retirement at 28, and he comes back to town to wallow/plan his next steps, he’s not interested in dating any of the women who throw themselves at him (and they even have a competition to see who can land him first). Georgie tries her best to make him feel better but he’s not so interested in his best friend’s kid sister hanging around either. She wants to help him cope with the issues he's dealing with, but it doesn't hurt that he's gotten sexier in the meantime.
However, as Georgie starts to prove she's more than his best friend's little sister, the more he starts to see Georgie as an adult (something no one in her family seems to do), and the more he realizes there’s so much more to her. Suddenly he's finding it hard not to think about her, especially sexually. But he knows her brother will kill him.
When he needs to project a stable, family-friendly image in order to land a commentating job (he once asked out a reporter during a press conference), Georgie suggests they pretend to be dating. This, too, will help her get the respect she needs from her family since they’ll see her as a woman and not a kid, and it may carry over into her professional life, where she's looking to expand her children's party entertainment business into a full-scale operation.
As you might expect, the charade becomes more complicated when they can’t keep their hands off each other. And then feelings get in the way, but before they can deal with that, there’s some baggage that has to be dealt with on both sides. (Not to mention her brother.)
This was a fun, immensely hot rom-com, but it also deals with self-belief, self-esteem, and not letting people interfere with your dreams. Nothing really earth-shattering in terms of the genre (although this may be the first book I’ve read where the female character is a clown for children’s parties) but that doesn’t matter one bit.
I'm super excited for her next book to come out in January, as it will feature characters that played a bit part in Fix Her Up. Tessa Bailey definitely knows how to create sexual tension between her characters, that's for sure!!
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