Hollywood's biggest action star has finally met his match: a leaking sink. Julian Vance can outrun explosions, survive impossible stunts, and save the world before the credits roll. He cannot fix a P-trap. Burned out by fame and desperate to escape a life where everything feels scripted, Julian disappears into the tiny coastal town of Blueberry Harbor, Maine. No cameras. No red carpets. No pretending.
Then he walks into Whisk & Wander Bakery and meets Clara Hayes. She's flour-covered, fiercely independent, completely overwhelmed.and apparently the only woman in town who has no idea who he is. Even better?She thinks he's Jake, the handyman she hired from Craigslist. Julian should correct her. Instead, he says, "Yeah. I'm Jake."There's just one problem: Julian has never fixed anything in his life.
Soon Hollywood's favorite action hero is secretly watching repair tutorials at midnight, losing battles with power tools, destroying perfectly innocent plumbing, and doing everything he can to convince his beautiful new boss that he knows which end of a wrench to hold. Clara knows her new handyman is hiding something. His boots are too expensive, his hands are suspiciously free of calluses, and no ordinary contractor should be able to execute a combat roll to save a falling shelf.
But beneath Jake's spectacular incompetence is a man who keeps showing up. A man who works until his hands blister. A man who makes her laugh when the weight of saving her late grandmother's bakery becomes too much to carry alone. And despite every instinct telling her otherwise, Clara is falling for him. There's only one thing she doesn't know. Jake isn't a handyman. He's one of the most famous men in the world.
Unfortunately for Julian, the rest of Blueberry Harbor figured that out almost immediately. The entire town has agreed to keep his secret. They've also started taking bets on how long he survives manual labor. But somewhere between broken pipes, flour-covered nights, one slightly crooked handmade bench, and kisses that feel far too real, Julian realizes his escape has become something else entirely.
He came to Blueberry Harbor to stop pretending. Then he fell in love with the one woman who doesn't know who he really is. And when Hollywood finally comes looking for its missing star, Julian will have to prove that while the handyman may have been a lie, everything he feels for Clara is real. Starring the Handyman is a swoony, laugh-out-loud contemporary romantic comedy featuring secret identity, small-town chaos, forced proximity, celebrity romance, he falls first, he falls harder, a fiercely independent baker, an adorably incompetent handyman, meddling townspeople, sizzling chemistry, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
Hollywood's biggest action star has finally met his match: a leaking sink. Julian Vance can outrun explosions, survive impossible stunts, and save the world before the credits roll. He cannot fix a P-trap. Burned out by fame and desperate to escape a life where everything feels scripted, Julian disappears into the tiny coastal town of Blueberry Harbor, Maine. No cameras. No red carpets. No pretending.
Then he walks into Whisk & Wander Bakery and meets Clara Hayes. She's flour-covered, fiercely independent, completely overwhelmed.and apparently the only woman in town who has no idea who he is. Even better?She thinks he's Jake, the handyman she hired from Craigslist. Julian should correct her. Instead, he says, "Yeah. I'm Jake."There's just one problem: Julian has never fixed anything in his life.
Soon Hollywood's favorite action hero is secretly watching repair tutorials at midnight, losing battles with power tools, destroying perfectly innocent plumbing, and doing everything he can to convince his beautiful new boss that he knows which end of a wrench to hold. Clara knows her new handyman is hiding something. His boots are too expensive, his hands are suspiciously free of calluses, and no ordinary contractor should be able to execute a combat roll to save a falling shelf.
But beneath Jake's spectacular incompetence is a man who keeps showing up. A man who works until his hands blister. A man who makes her laugh when the weight of saving her late grandmother's bakery becomes too much to carry alone. And despite every instinct telling her otherwise, Clara is falling for him. There's only one thing she doesn't know. Jake isn't a handyman. He's one of the most famous men in the world.
Unfortunately for Julian, the rest of Blueberry Harbor figured that out almost immediately. The entire town has agreed to keep his secret. They've also started taking bets on how long he survives manual labor. But somewhere between broken pipes, flour-covered nights, one slightly crooked handmade bench, and kisses that feel far too real, Julian realizes his escape has become something else entirely.
He came to Blueberry Harbor to stop pretending. Then he fell in love with the one woman who doesn't know who he really is. And when Hollywood finally comes looking for its missing star, Julian will have to prove that while the handyman may have been a lie, everything he feels for Clara is real. Starring the Handyman is a swoony, laugh-out-loud contemporary romantic comedy featuring secret identity, small-town chaos, forced proximity, celebrity romance, he falls first, he falls harder, a fiercely independent baker, an adorably incompetent handyman, meddling townspeople, sizzling chemistry, and a guaranteed happily ever after.