Starring the Handyman: A Small-Town Celebrity Romantic Comedy (Unscripted Hearts)
Hollywood's biggest action star has finally met his match: a leaking sink.
Julian Vance can outrun explosions, leap from moving cars, and save the world before the credits roll.
He cannot fix a P-trap.
Burned out by fame and desperate to escape his carefully scripted life, Julian disappears into the tiny coastal town of Blueberry Harbor, Maine. No cameras. No red carpets. No pretending.
Then he walks into Whisk & Wander Bakery and meets Clara Hayes.
She's flour-covered, stressed, devastatingly attractive...and apparently the only woman in America who has no idea who he is.
Even better?
She thinks he's Jake, the handyman she hired from Craigslist.
Julian should correct her.
Instead, he hears himself say, "Yeah. I'm Jake."
There's just one tiny problem.
Julian has never fixed anything in his life.
Soon Hollywood's favorite action hero is secretly watching repair tutorials at midnight, destroying perfectly innocent plumbing, battling power tools, and doing everything possible to convince Clara he knows which end of a wrench to hold.
And Clara?
She's starting to fall for the ridiculously handsome handyman with suspiciously soft hands, expensive boots, and absolutely terrible explanations about his past.
But Clara doesn't know what the rest of Blueberry Harbor figured out approximately five minutes after Julian arrived:
Jake isn't a handyman.
He's one of the most famous men in the world.
And the entire town has agreed to keep his secret.
They've also started taking bets on how long he survives manual labor.
What begins as Julian's escape from Hollywood quickly becomes something dangerously real. Because somewhere between broken pipes, flour-covered kisses, and one very crooked handmade bench, Julian realizes he isn't pretending anymore.
He's falling for his boss.
And when Hollywood eventually comes looking for its missing star, Julian may discover that fixing Clara's bakery was the easy part.
Convincing her that his love was never an act?
That might require the biggest performance of his life.
Starring the Handyman is a swoony, laugh-out-loud contemporary romantic comedy featuring secret identity, small-town chaos, forced proximity, he falls first, he falls harder, an adorably incompetent handyman, a fiercely independent baker, meddling townspeople, sizzling chemistry, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
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