Some Nerve
Categories: Romance , Staff Picks , Fiction
Every time Jane Heller releases a new book, it’s like I’m getting a little piece of chocolate in book form. In her latest book, Some Nerve, celebrity journalist Ann Roth (who works for the People-like Famous magazine) is told by her editor to obtain the unobtainable: An interview with notoriously press-shy mega-star Malcolm Goddard. If she doesn’t get this interview, the nice girl journalist (there’s no point to digging in a celeb’s garbage when you can get info from them politely) is fired. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.
It’s interesting reading about Ann’s attempts to woo Malcolm into giving her an interview, her attempts to get around his venomous publicist and just how far she has to lower herself. She finally gets him to agree to an interview, but he stipulates that she interview him while he’s flying his Cessna plane. The only problem: Ann is deathly afraid of flying and Malcolm knows this. When her fear prevents her from getting “The Big Get” (as her editor calls it), she heads home in disgrace to her small Missouri hometown to be a freelance journalist.
When she’s given a tip that Malcolm will be undergoing heart surgery at the town’s hospital, Ann promptly hatches a scheme to volunteer at the hospital and get her ultimate revenge on Malcolm. But is the joke on her?
In addition to Some Nerve, some of my favorite Jane Heller novels are:
- Infernal Affairs (A real estate agent sells her soul to the devil to get a killer body.)
- Name Dropping (A woman lives in the same NYC apartment with a famous celebrity who happens to have the same name she does.)
- The Secret Ingredient (A woman wishes her husband would return to the same man he was when they started dating, but once she gets her wish, she begins to regret it!)
- Lucky Stars (A struggling actress tries to rebuild her relationship with her estranged mother, but her mother’s sudden over night fame threatens their reconciliation.)
