Stay at Home - Softcover

Phelan, Sarah

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0977992705 ISBN 13: 9780977992706

Publisher: Blanket Fort Pub, 2006

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Janie Hadley, stay at home mom and daycare provider, is bamboozled into caring for the daughter of notorious rock/movie star, Billy Smitts. Over dirty diapers, jealous groupies, cookie crumbs, and “stalkerazzi,” their no-nonsense business relationship turns sweetly personal. And Janie and Billy discover that sometimes Love refuses to take a Time-Out. Original.

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About the Author:

"Stay At Home" is Sarah Phelan's debut novel. Formerly a school teacher in her hometown, a daycare provider, a marketing executive and a graphic designer, Sarah has spent most of her "playtime" writing - producing numerous spec scripts, a feature film, short stories, plays and poetry as well as several "Lifestyles" articles for the local news. Sarah uses her own experiences and her unique sense of “the way life really is” to infuse her work with humor, intelligence and realism, particularly in romantic and family relationships. She graduated from Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts in 1995 and shortly thereafter moved to LA to try and break into the "biz." She has since moved back to her hometown of Lynn, Massachusetts to start a family with her husband, Peter. They have two children, a dog and two cats.

From the Inside Flap:

It could have been a “Fairytale Romance” if that pesky “Reality” thing wasn't in the way... Stay At Home mom and put-upon daycare provider Janie Hadley rarely gets a moment to herself never mind an entire night out, so when she's invited to a concert featuring the famous singer/actor Billy Smitts, Janie isn't looking for much more than a modicum of Tanqueray and a whole lot of letting-loose fun. But the morning after, Janie finds herself to be plus a killer hangover and minus a wallet. As our headachy heroine frantically calls to cancel her credit cards, the perpetrator stalks her to her house and shows up at her door with his famous, multi-million dollar smile and a dubious business proposition. Billy Smitts is on location for a few months and has run dry of twenty year old blonde, big-boobed nannies for his daughter. Much to Janie's dismay, Billy Smitts uses his trademark boyish charm as well as his enormous, ahem, buying power to manipulate his way past her protests and into her daycare.Forced to “play nice” in front of the kids on a daily basis, a contentious friendship develops between the notorious celebrity and the Mrs. Perfect mom. Billy and Janie, the two most unlikely of allies, soon begin to realize that despite what the Outside World may believe, neither of them really does have it all, and the harrowing experiences they share cause them both to call into question whether they are better off facing life together, or apart.Turning a tried and true romance novel premise on its ear, Sarah Phelan tells “Stay At Home” as a sweetly personal, intensely sexy, provocatively smart and brutally honest story where love refuses to play by the rules and how “happily ever after” doesn't always mean the same thing to everyone.

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