Dazzling … I didn’t want it to end’ Coco Mellors author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein‘Phenomenal! A book worthy of a standing ovation’ Lizzie Damilola Blackburn, author of Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? Getting a second chance is a beautiful thing…Bianca Bridge’s personal and professional lives are in tatters. She has lost her beloved mother and has only a distant relationship with her self-made father. And now, she’s been outed as the mistress of a government minister – ending her journalism career before it had even started.

All but unemployable, she is astonished when tyrannical make-up artist Obadiah Cortland, Trinidad’s legendary ‘God of Good Looks’, hires her as his new assistant. At first, Bianca can’t stand her fierce new boss – and he lets her know the feeling is mutual. But when her ex threatens both their futures and working together becomes their last resort, she begins to glimpse another Obadiah beneath the façade he’s so carefully cultivated.

‘I loved it’ India Knight‘A glittering will-they, won’t-they Bridget Jones re-boot’ Nikki May, author of Wahala ‘A punchy romance with plenty to say about Caribbean class, poverty and sexism. Bianca Bridge is a heroine to root for’ Observer‘Wickedly funny… Mc Ivor uses the metaphor of make-up to examine privilege, corruption and truth. Bianca is a hugely endearing heroine’ Daily Mail