In Fix You, movie star Andrew Pettigrew (Andy to his fans, Andrew to his friends) somehow found the level-headed love he was looking for in young widow and “regular girl” Kelly Reynolds. Now, as they work to mesh their growing relationship with his gold-statue ambitions, things go a bit sideways, in true Hollywood fashion.
Though they’re still wonderfully in love, it’s challenge enough for Andrew and Kelly to decipher what it means to be a family—and a growing family at that—between takes on set. But Andrew also brings history with a temperamental co-star, assorted paparazzi, and someone out there who has serious, perhaps obsessive, issues with him into the mix. Suddenly the Reynolds-Pettigrew clan must fight not just to stay together, but to stay safe.
In Trouble Me, the sequel to Fix You and third novel from Rita finalist Beck Anderson, Kelly and Andrew struggle to stay sane within their whirlwind life. It’s a life that’s equal parts amazing and amusing, less glamorous than you might expect, and spiked with very real fears no amount of stardom can overcome.
Will Andrew and Kelly be torn apart, or will they help each other stay strong at their broken places?
We stop at a panel door. “Here it is, the famous lair of Andrew Pettigrew, boy wonder.”
He swings the door open. I step in to a sewing room. “What? So much for having sex in your childhood bed.” I elbow him, trying to get him to smile.
“Now that is a bummer. I could make up for all of the failed attempts in my teen years.”
“Not a lot of luck with the ladies? Your fans would be shocked.” I turn around, plant a kiss on his lips, and smack his butt.
“Watch it, girl! This is a wholesome and decent family’s home.”
“I’ve been corrupted by a Hollywood lothario. Can’t help it.”
“I’m not going to get up to no good with you in a sewing room. Not gonna do it.”
“Well, let’s go look for a more suitable place.” I wink and lead him out the door.
Beck Anderson loves to write about love and its power to heal and grow people past their many imperfections. She is a firm believer in the phrase "mistakes are for learning" and uses it frequently to guide her in writing life and real life.
For Beck, the path to published novelist has taken lots of twists and turns, including a degree in anthropology, a stint as a ticket seller at a ski resort, a much-loved career as a high school English teacher, and a long tenure as a member of the best writing group ever, hands down.
Beck balances (clumsily at best) writing novels and screenplays, working full-time as an educator, mothering two pre-teen males, loving one post-40 husband, and making time to walk the foothills of Boise, Idaho, with Stefano DiMera Delfino Anderson, the suavest Chihuahua north of the border. Learn more at authorbeck.com
1 comment:
Thank you for featuring Trouble Me! I appreciate it! Your support for authors means a lot,
Best,
Beck
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