Blurb Writing Sample # 1
"Love is a Game" author Angeline Brooks
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My blurb:
Overworked and underpaid, Sadie Connor has had enough of suitcase living and jet-setting as the "problem fixer" for a major, high-end hotel chain. If she can just get the promising promotion she's been after, she can quit the constant travel and start earning what she's worth. All she needs to do is convince her bosses to buy The Cypress Hotel and the promotion is hers—if that former pain-in-her-academic-record Andrew Price doesn't best her once again.
Giving up his prominent legal career to care for his dying mother wasn't easy, but now that she's passed, only child Andrew Price can't bring himself to return to the big city rat race. Biding his time as the town librarian, Andrew plans to honor his mother by establishing the landmark status of the historic hotel where she once worked—if only he can keep his former educational enemy from turning the charming hotel that he loves as much as his childhood home into a soulless corporate resort.
When the two academic adversaries voted "most likely to succeed" in high school return to determine the fate of their cozy hometown's historic hotel, their incendiary battle of wits may just ignite more than their former rivalry.
Initial author-provided notes:
- It's a sweet, clean, contemporary, dual POV romance
- Sadie Connor works for a major hotel chain, called Maddox, as an operations analyst (she looks for problems in under-performing hotels and gets them fixed, a job that requires lots of travel)
- Sadie's latest assignment is near her hometown, so she moves into her parents' guest room
- Her family is critical of her job because they believe she's overworked and underappreciated, which makes her defensive about it
- Sadie's been trying to get a promotion that would provide more stability (less travel)
- Sadie finds out that the owner of the Cypress, a historic hotel in her hometown, wants to sell. (The owner inherited it from his parents and it has sat empty since their deaths). She thinks that if she can convince her company to buy the hotel, it would help he get the promotion she's been after.
- Andrew Price, Sadie's high school rival, has also moved back to town. He gave up his job as a lawyer to care for his mother, but now that she's passed away, he works at the tiny local library, a job that doesn't challenge him.
- Sadie and Andrew were intellectual rivals in high school. Both very smart and both graduated at the top of their class.
- Andrew's mother worked at the Cypress his whole life, and the owners took the two of them under their wing, acting as pseudo-grandparents to Andrew.
- Andrew is trying to get the boutique Cypress Hotel protected with historical landmark status so that it won't be destroyed by a corporate chain hotel makeover.
- Andrew has all of the documents and resources that Sadie needs to prepare her sales pitch stowed away in his little library. He doesn't want her company to corporatize it, but he is forced by the hotel's owner to give Sadie access to everything she needs.
- Andrew does give Sadie access to the paperwork, but he insists that the documents stay in the library, which means they spend a lot of time together.
- Over time, these former enemies soften toward each other and feelings grow.
- Sadie convinces Andrew that her company purchasing the hotel will be the best thing for it, and offers to help him with his landmark application. But when she learns that doing so could jeopardize her possible promotion, she's forced to decide what's more important: her career goals, or Andrew's newfound trust.