Bad Boy

A New York Times Bestseller "Wickedly funny female bonding" People magazine hailed of Young Wives, Olivia Goldsmith's most recent novel. Now, the queen of the modern comedy of manners serves up her sharpest novel yet, Bad Boy. Best friends Tracie and Jon meet for coffee each Sunday night to discuss their forlorn love lives. Tracie loves boys with an affinity for leather jackets and poetry--classic bad boys who seem too good to be true (and usually are). Jon foolishly falls for girls who never like him in that way . . . until he convinces Tracie to teach him some tricks of the trade. Reluctant at first--after all, Jon is so good he dutifully celebrated Mother's Day by having brunch with his dad's fourth wife, lunch with his real mother, tea with his first stepmother, and dinner with his second stepmother--Tracie eventually accepts the challenge and throws herself into the "lessons," cutting corners at her job at the Seattle Times and ignoring her bad boy du jour, Phil. After a much needed wardrobe makeover, lessons on the meaning of unavailability, menu etiquette, and finally learning to make women smolder, the new "Jonny", becomes a far too successful heartbreaker. And Tracie discovers that she just might be head-over-heels in love with him. But there are a few loose ends: Phil has decided he wants to settle down with Tracie, Tracie's girlfriend is obsessed with Jonny, and Jon can't understand why Tracie never liked him for who he was before the leather. With her inimitable wit, Olivia Goldsmith delivers a smart, laugh-out-loud tale of modern romance sure to keep readers everywhere in stitches.