My First Blog Hop (here we go!)
Back cover:
Hollywood superstar Leo Blake seemingly has it all; he’s a handsome, sought-after movie idol who’s box-office gold. What he doesn’t have is respect, specifically in the form of gossip columnist Kara Ocean, a one-woman demolition team who has made it her ongoing mission to cut Leo down to size.
When Leo’s publicist decides his image could use a makeover, they invite Kara to take a second, and more intimate look. Against everyone’s better judgement, Leo begins to fall in love. But is the connection strong enough to keep them together in the face of unrelenting media scrutiny—a monster partly of Kara’s own making?
Inside:
Chapter 1
“I read your last column,” Kara’s building manager said. “Ouch.”
“He had it coming.” Kara waved her hand to dismiss the other woman’s concerns. She worked for an online gossip magazine, not the one that you would pick up in the supermarket, but the one that got quoted on the evening news.
She had built a career on scathing movie reviews and witty criticisms of stars’ lifestyles. She couldn’t tell which article the building manager was referring to, but it didn’t matter. They were all pretty much the same. At this point, Kara’s heart wasn’t even in it. It was just something she did for a living. She didn’t get excited about seeing the stars anymore because she knew they were just ordinary people.
Her readers, however, were still convinced that the Hollywood set knew something they didn’t. People were hungry for intimate details and Kara just fed them what they wanted. Her writing was a cross between journalism and comedy. She brought the stars down to the level where everyone else could make fun of them, and wasn’t that just what the market demanded?
Take her latest article, a scathing review of Leo Blake’s box office hit. While he was busy romancing the ladies and inspiring the men, Kara had seen through the whole charade. He was obviously on steroids. No normal man paid that much attention to his looks. He had been painted, airbrushed, and starved into a washboard stomach, and he took off his shirt far too many times to be realistic. And why would anyone believe that a car mechanic was secretly a Navy SEAL who had been tasked with policing the docks? It was ridiculous. The whole blockbuster was so full of holes, it deserved whatever smear campaign she launched at it.
That was Kara’s job, to call out the emperor for being naked. And yet, she had done it so many times, that it all felt a little boring. Kara was trying to put in a complaint about her washing machine, and she didn’t want to get distracted by talking about her work.
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