Holly Hearts Headlines
Author: Kenley Conrad
Series: Holly Hearts Hollywood Book 2
Series: Holly Hearts Hollywood Book 2
Publication Date: Oct 27, 2015
Publisher: Swoon Romance
Genre: YA, Romance
Holly Hart has it all: designer clothes,
affluent friends, a recording contract, and she’s dating the biggest pop star
in America.
It’s too bad he can’t be seen with her in
public. It’s even worse that he seems so very cozy with Lacey, the girl who
seems to enjoy stealing Holly’s dream and taking all the credit for their
platinum-selling album.
And Lacey? Well she couldn’t carry a tune
in a bucket, but that hasn’t stopped her from basking in the glow of the fame
and fortune that comes with pretending to be Holly.
Yet, Holly signed a contract vowing to
never reveal her true identity as the girl behind the hit songs. Her record
label doesn’t want anyone to know their teen dream is really a chubby, insecure
girl from Iowa.
Holly needs to focus on finals. She can’t
let herself be distracted by the extremely hot and talented Grayson Frost or
his prevailing attachment to Lacey. This is the deal Holly made, and she has to
honor it no matter how much she hates it.
As if that’s not enough pressure, her
grandparents have come to stay, her mom is dating a guy who makes his own
deodorant, Shell Shocked Records want Holly to distance herself from Grayson,
and she’ll probably end up failing Driver’s Ed.
In a town full of gossip and secrets, Holly
wonders just how much longer she can continue to live a double life.
When the media gets a little too close for
comfort, both Holly and Lacey are at risk. Soon Holly realizes her dream isn’t
only about her and if she is to ever be truly happy, she’ll need to find a way
past her insecurities.
Filled with laugh out loud and hold your
breath moments, Holly Hearts Headlines is the follow-up to Holly Hearts
Hollywood by Kenley Conrad.
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Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah. So, the first
issue I was running into was just finding Grayson’s SIZE. Women’s clothing is sized with the ever-ambiguous
small, medium, or large which can greatly vary depending on what store you’re
at. Even worse than the small, medium, or large setup is the 2, 4, 6, 8, and so
on size chart. There’s just no logic. Men’s clothing is sized in inches from
waistline to leg lengths. It is so much more accurate and practical.
So I was standing in the men’s department with
a pair of raw, denim jeans in one hand and a relaxed fit Henley shirt in the
other when I had a horrible realization: I don’t know a lot about my boyfriend.
Sure, I know basic stuff his fans know like his birthday, favorite color, and
favorite flavor of ice cream. But I don’t know his shoe size or his favorite
cut of jeans. How am I supposed to buy my boyfriend an awesome birthday gift if
I don’t know his waist to pant leg measurements? I AM A HORRIBLE GIRLFRIEND.
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Catch up on the series by reading...
Holly
Hearts Hollywood
Author: Kenley Conrad
Series: Holly Hearts Hollywood #1
Series: Holly Hearts Hollywood #1
Publication
Date: September 2014
Publisher:
Swoon Romance
Holly Hearts Hollywood is the first book in
a series.
Seventeen-year-old Holly Hart wants to be a
star. She moves to Los Angeles from the small town of Cedar Junction, only to
hear she’s too fat and ugly to be a famous singer.
But when Shell Shocked Records looks past
Holly’s plus-size and less-than-graceful-personality to offer her a recording
contract, Holly cannot believe her good fortune. On closer inspection, however,
the record execs want Holly to do all the singing, and a thinner and more
beautiful girl, Lacey, would lip-sync and get all the credit. Holly goes for it
because after all, she wanted to sing.
Contractually bound to secrecy, Holly is
more than happy to sit backstage and write in her journal while Lacey shimmies
in the limelight and basks in the fame. Before she knows it, Holly is friends
with Serena, the pop-star daughter of a music-mogul, flirting with an intern,
and developing a strange half-friendship with Lacey.
When Grayson Frost, the biggest country star
in America, and coincidentally, a former school bully begins dating Lacey,
Holly hopes that he won’t recognize or torment her.
Through a series of embarrassing and weird
events, Holly gets to know Grayson and learns that he is much nicer and more
mature than he was four years ago. Holly is horrified when she starts falling
for him. When Grayson admits he fell for Lacey’s voice, what is a girl to do
when she can’t legally tell the truth at the moment when the truth matters the
most?
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Kenley is a twenty-something cat lady who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. When she's not working her office day job or writing books, you can find her either singing and dancing or binge-watching TV shows on Netflix.
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Kenley Conrad's Holly Hearts Headlines seems like a fun read, and I’m thrilled to see an excerpt featured! Plus, who doesn’t love a giveaway? Can’t wait to dive into the book and see what all the buzz is about!
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