The Fixer Upper A Novel

Mary Kay Andrews

eBook - 2009

"Entirely satisfying, an expert balance of warmth and compassion, terrific supporting characters, a little steamy sex and just enough suspense to keep you from guessing how it will all go down." — Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionA hilarious novel about one woman's quest to redo an old house . . . and her life, as only New York Times bestseller Mary Kay Andrews can tell it.After her boss in a high-powered Washington public relations firm is caught in a political scandal, fledgling lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left unemployed and broke. Out of options, she reluctantly accepts her father's offer to help refurbish Birdsong, the old family place he recently inherited in Guthrie, Georgia. All it will take, he tells her, is a... little paint and some TLC to turn the fading Victorian mansion into a real-estate cash cow.But when she arrives, Dempsey realizes that "Bird Droppings" would more aptly describe the moldering Pepto... more