Synopsis
After spending fifteen years renovating houses for wealthy L.A. women and keeping his distance from his clients, Henry Sullivan finds himself breaking the rules when he falls for two very different women, former friends for whom he takes on separate remodeling jobs while trying to uncover the events that had ended the women's friendship. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.
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Richard Murphy has written for New Line Cinema, Sony/ Revolution, and Universal Pictures. Prior to screenwriting, he renovated apartments and houses in Los Angeles and elsewhere. Murphy is currently in the market to buy a home.
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In screenwriter Murphy's breezy debut, Henry Sullivan, a single, in-demand L.A. contractor, can pick and choose his high-end home renovation jobs. Henry's self-imposed rules—don't sleep with clients and don't take on too many projects at once—go out a half-finished window when he falls for two clients at once: Sally Stein, a single and successful purse designer, and Rebecca Paulson, an unhappily married mother of twins who is Sally's former best friend. Why the two women he loves are no longer speaking becomes so intriguing to Henry that he begins to dig for answers while simultaneously finishing (or, rather, attempting to finish) both their houses. How Henry finally solves the mystery is neatly wrapped up at the end of this amusing tour through the perils of poking around in others' intimate spaces. (Aug.)
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