Bless This Hot Mess - by Charlie David (Paperback)

About the Book

Hilarious, campy, musical and moving, this enemies to lovers romance provokes you to ponder: If I steal a few hearts, can I still get into Heaven?

Book Synopsis

READ THE BOOK, AND LISTEN TO THE SOUNDTRACK

WAIT...IS THIS A BOOK? OR A MUSICAL?

It's both! Make this story interactive! Find the Bless This Hot Mess soundtrack on all major music storefronts including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, YouTube and more. Read, listen and sing along. '90s nostalgia never sounded so good.

SYNOPSIS (Buckle-up Buttercup!)

Hilarious, campy, musical and moving, this book provokes you to ponder: If I steal a few hearts, can I still get into Heaven?

When a failing radio station's morning show starts stealing, sampling and remixing '90s pop songs in a Hail Mary attempt at attracting an audience, virtuous virgin Japheth is forced to team up with Rino, a dangerously charming Italian car dealership heir with advertiser dollars to spend and maybe-mafia vibes, and their enemies-to-lovers romance threatens to become the station's biggest scandal and its only salvation.

At WWJD Radio in Greater Napanee, salvation is off script. The phones are ringing off the hook, the fax machine is spitting out cease-and-desist letters from every boy band of the '90s, and Trinity, the trio of accidental evangelists, are stealing pop songs "for the Lord."

There's Rebekkah; the breathless true believer who, though 30, still refers to herself as an ingénue. Her best friend Japheth; virtuous and still virginal. Ronald: poly, pan, and building an ark in his backyard.

Together with Carrington (part receptionist, part stylist, part chaos incarnate), Suwarna (HR, in charge of keeping her new station owner alive and not 'disappeared'), and everyone's new boss, Emma-Lou (an heiress with a talent for panic and bangs that weren't her idea) they're keeping WWJD barely afloat.

Until it burns down. Literally.

Their only shot at salvation comes from Rino Ferrari: a devastatingly charming Italian car-dealership heir with too much money, too many secrets, and maybe a little mafia energy. Unfortunately for Japheth (romantic mess and professional overthinker), Rino is also the last person he wants to need... and the first person he can't stop thinking about.

As scandal, suspicion, and undeniable chemistry collide, Japheth and Rino tumble from enemies to lovers in a rom-com where faith is flexible, temptation is tailored, and the guy you're supposed to hate is the one who makes you feel alive.

Is local car dealer Rino Ferrari a mobster, or just a surprisingly generous Christian with body bags of money to give away? Why did Emma-Lou's parents really "disappear" in the Bermuda Triangle? And will Trinity rebuild a new station on a floating ark, or sell out to dirty money for fame, tote bags, and a studio album?

Outrageously funny, shockingly tender, and just heretical enough, Bless This Hot Mess will jump-start your heart.

Review Quotes

"Big laughs, bigger heart, and just the right amount of 90's nostalgia-Bless This Hot Mess is pure fun. This book sings, (Literally!)"

- USA Today Bestselling Author Ella Frank

"A fresh, funny take on love, faith, and finding your place-messy, meaningful, and totally entertaining."

- USA Today Bestselling Author Brooke Blaine

"Bless This Hot Mess is a book filled with joy, love and toe-tapping fun. Guaranteed to put a smile on your face and a song in your heart."

- Felice Stevens, Lambda Literary Award-winning author

"Charlie David's voice is irreverent, affectionate, and fiercely self-aware with a deep, abiding belief in the power of community. The entire cast crackles with charm in the bracing comic stylings of the author, a clever Canuck who mines this terrain for heavenly metal. Why isn't this already greenlit as a TV series, like, yesterday? Why hasn't Netflix hired Cheyenne Jackson and Rebel Wilson, and rushed this into production in Hollywood North?"

- Damon Suede, Author of Hot Head

"Charlie David has written a book that is laugh-out-loud, snort-into-your-coffee funny, and while you're busy laughing, he quietly reaches into your chest and rearranges your heart. When you finish Bless This Hot Mess, you'll have a warmth in your soul that comes from being in the presence of someone who fundamentally believes in people."

- Cardeno C., Author of Perfect Imperfections

"Charlie David's Bless This Hot Mess is always sweet, sometimes silly, and brimming with a gentle-hearted love story. What I enjoyed most was the cast of endearing (and often clueless) characters, all of them striving to figure themselves out, achieve their dreams, and maybe fall in love. I was rooting for them the whole way."

- Gregory Ashe, Author of Pretty Pretty Boys

"A hilarious, wild ride through small-town dreams-Charlie David delivers a joy bomb dressed in a choir robe."

- Tracey Erin Smith, Amazon Best Selling Author of Flying Soulo: Your Story on Stage

"Bless This Hot Mess manifests a musical in the mind's eye with a Jimmy Buffett-style mystery, and one-liners reminiscent of the heyday of comedy hours. A colourful cast of sassy, quick-witted, and guilelessness individuals so charming they jump off the pages and into the reader's heart."

- Dianna Roman, Author of Until I Saw You