It Happened One Fight

Maureen Lenker

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17 October 2023

City of Girls meets Christina Lauren in this rompy rom-com about a Gilded Age of Hollywood actress accidentally married to her costar nemesis and forced to fake a celebrity romance to save her career.

From Entertainment Weekly writer Maureen Lee Lenker comes a swoony romantic comedy set in the world of 1930s film.

Joan Davis is a movie star, and a damned good actor, too. Unfortunately, Hollywood only seems to care when she stars alongside Dash Howard, Tinseltown's favorite leading man and a perpetual thorn in Joan's side. She's sick of his hotshot attitude, his never-ending attempts to get a rise out of her-especially after the night he sold her out to the press on a studio-arranged date. She'll turn her career around without him. She's engaged to Hollywood's next rising star, after all, and preparing to make the film that could finally get her taken seriously. Then, a bombshell drops- thanks to one of his on-set pranks gone wrong, Dash and Joan are legally married.

Reputation on the line, Joan agrees to star alongside Dash one last time and move production to Reno, where divorce is legal after a six-week residency. But between on-set shenanigans, fishing competitions at Lake Tahoe, and intimate moments leaked to the press, Joan begins to see another side to the man she thought she had all figured out, and it becomes harder and harder to convince the public-and herself-that her marriage to Dash is the joke it started out as.

By: Maureen Lenker
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 22mm
ISBN: 9781728267883
ISBN 10: 1728267889
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 17 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Maureen Lee Lenker is an award-winning journalist who has written for Turner Classic Movies, The Hollywood Reporter, Ms. Magazine, and more. She currently writes for Entertainment Weekly, where she maintains a quarterly romance review column, Hot Stuff, in addition to covering film, TV, and theater. She is a proud graduate of both the University of Southern California and the University of Oxford. Maureen calls Los Angeles home, where you'll either find her at the beach or in a repertory movie-house, if she's not writing.

Reviews for It Happened One Fight

"""Entertainment Weekly reporter Lenker's debut is a unique historical romance that takes readers back to the days of old Hollywood and the ritz of Reno, complete with the enduring themes of love, passion, and betrayal."" -- Library Journal ""Lenker's debut delights in playing with the language and tropes of classic Hollywood films--studio moguls chewing cigars, curtains strung between beds, and furious banter between the love interests."" -- Kirkus"