Call Me Irresistible / Susan Elizabeth Phillips 387 p.

Returning characters from Phillips previous works (Glitter Baby, Fancy Pants, and First Lady) delight the reader. The aimless Meg Koranda, daughter of Hollywood legends, breaks up the marriage between Ted Beaudine, and Lucy Jorik, daughter of first woman president. Everyone in Wynette, Tex., loves Ted and they defend their favorite son. Meg’s parents show tough love to get her to make something of herself so they cut her off and she finds herself without funds, living in a Rustmobile, and owing a chunk for her hotel room. Stranded, Meg becomes the town’s pariah and forced to accept a menial job cleaning toilets to pay off her hotel room—probably her first. Meg, honest, outspoken, and reckless, finds herself in the center of a campaign to get a multimillionaire to invest in an environmentally green golf course that is needed to boost the town’s shaky economy. This tosses her into contact with both Ted, the billionaire, his daughter, and the quirky townspeople. Her wit and her famous pedigree get the multimillionaire pursing her. To give herself an out with the multimillionaire she declares her love for Ted. So she fakes a romantic interest in Ted. Meg’s path to acceptance is rocky indeed. Phillip’s works demonstrate her gift for witty dialogue and intriguing characters. A bestseller from a RITA winner. Phillips says that Lucy Jorik deserves her happy ending and is hard at work on her story.