

?" -Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Lone Wolf and The StorytellerĪctress and reality show host Sweeney ( The Mommy Diet) hits it out of the park with her engaging fiction debut about an L.A.-based star publicist who lets her love life get in the way of work Sweeney uses many familiar chick-lit tropes but does it very well and also infuses her story with insider-y Hollywood situations and realistic depictions of relationship woes. It's great fun for any reader who secretly sneaks peeks at People magazine in the checkout line at the grocery store, and wonders, What if. "Alison Sweeney's novel is an entertaining, backstage glimpse at those who organize the lives of the Hollywood elite. But will a steamy make-out session in a restaurant alley with her big-name client cost Sophie her job? And does she really want an escape from her life and her loving, if imperfect, relationship with her investment banker boyfriend? The Star Attraction takes us on a wild ride through one woman's daytime soap come to life.

She even scores her PR firm's most important actor client and every woman's dream-Billy Fox. Sophie is a Hollywood publicist who has a fabulous job, a fabulous boyfriend, and a fabulous life. "Can you blame a publicist for blurring the lines between what's real and what's a dream, when her client is a gorgeous actor?" -Jodi Picoult
