Wendy Wax Hostile Makeover

Hostile Makeover

Wendy Wax

Bantam, Nov 2005, $6.50

ISBN: 0553587951

When sixty something Harvey Schwartz undergoes emergency by-pass surgery, and is forced to take an earlier than planned retirement, his thirty-three year old daughter Shelley, expects to be placed in charge of the family business, Schwartz & Associates. Instead her dad selects hot shot Ross Morgan to run the advertising firm, especially after she comes very late to a critical client meeting looking as if she has just had intimate relations, which she had just had with her boyfriend Trey Davenport.

Shelley takes out her disappointment on Ross, who pulls no punches, that she has not earned the position as he did, and if she was not related to the owner she would have been fired years ago. He challenges her to prove her worth by handing her several dormant cases to drum up needed business. Shelley plans to prove him wrong, even as their boardroom squabble leads to love.

This fun chick lit tale, stars a Jewish American princess who cannot understand why daddy did not entrust her with the company (readers will know why), and a hardworking intelligent hunk, who refuses to take any guff from her. The storyline is lighthearted, especially as her matchmaking mother keeps parading potential Jewish spouses, that Shelley rejects because they come from her mom, and she refuses to date anyone Jewish. A final twist makes for a fine boardroom to bedroom romance.