The Time of Her Life

By Lily Seabrooke

At rock bottom, you can only go up.

The end is just the beginning.

Julie Branch is a loser. No job, no friends, no future, dumped by her girlfriend and living in a laundry closet, she’s finally given up on her dreams of making it big, and she’s ready to give up and leave New York.

And rock bottom is where she meets a sketchy life coach called Kingmaker in a sketchy pizza parlor, and she agrees to use her limited time left here to give it one more shot. After all, it’s not like her life can get worse, right?

Until he tricks her into taking on unmanageable debt, a false identity with a fictional husband, lying her way into two separate careers she isn’t qualified for, and falling for a woman well out of her league.

Helena Warrick is tired of her carefully managed life. Model, actress, and daughter of an international luxury brand magnate, all she really wants is to build her own life in the startup scene.

It was supposed to just be one founders’ party, experiencing that life. But with the mysterious woman she met there who she should not be flirting with, evasive about her past and about her husband, maybe there’s no turning back.

The Time of Her Life is a 90,000-word mistaken-identity romance with more bad choices, bad ideas and bad luck than you’d think you could fit into a book. Features the most untrustworthy life coach you could imagine, the most fish-out-of-water girl trying to fake it till she makes it you could imagine, and the most needlessly forbidden “forbidden attraction” you could imagine. Content warnings for a homophobic mother, references to domestic violence (that’s never actually happening), poverty and debt and financial stress, and a girl who makes every bad choice available and finds an extra bonus bad choice nobody knew about and manages to make that one too.