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Cover Story

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From the author of Under the Rainbow, a hilarious, emotional love story about an anxious publicist who's tasked with keeping an extremely gay starlet in the closet—but ends up falling for her instead.​
It's 2005, and Ali is a publicist for Hollywood's biggest stars. Part of her job entails keeping gay celebrities in the closet—which is pretty ironic, since she's a lesbian. When Ali is assigned a new gay client, Cara Bisset, who's breaking onto the scene with a (hetero) romantic blockbuster, keeping Cara's sexuality under wraps becomes Ali's biggest challenge yet.
Cara is unruly and unpredictable, and hates that she has to hide her identity. After a series of increasingly close calls, Ali is sent on the worldwide promotional tour for the movie to help keep Cara in line. Instead, she finds herself drawn to Cara's confidence and bravery. For the past year, Ali has been mired in grief after losing her partner in a freak accident. But with Cara, Ali's fears about the world subside, and she begins to question the Hollywood closeting system she's helped perpetuate.
As Cara's fame continues to rise, both Ali and Cara have to decide which is more important: maintaining the status quo, or risking it all for another chance at love.

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      March 1, 2025
      After the death of her partner Natalie, Ali isn't sure how to put one foot in front of the other, let alone juggle the many demands of her high-profile public relations job. While celebrity PR has its glamorous moments, the hypocrisy of the job has been eating at Ali lately. Even in the early 2000s, so many people in Hollywood seem afraid to be who they are. When Ali meets an up-and-coming actress with genuine talent and a captivating smile, she realizes that rebuilding her life doesn't have to mean doing exactly what's expected. Laskey (So Happy for You, 2022) delicately navigates deep themes of grief, identity, and resilience set against the frothy world of the ever-churning celebrity machine. Readers who loved Taylor Jenkins Reid's The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (2017) and Melissa Broder's The Pisces (2018) will find themselves equally captivated by this sharp, warm, and witty novel. Alternatingly heart-wrenching, satirical, and romantic, Cover Story captures the isolation of grief contrasted with the demands of a highly public-facing job.

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