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Maureen Lee Lenker

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Maureen Lee Lenker is an award-winning journalist who has written for Turner Classic Movies, The Hollywood Reporter, Ms. Magazine, and more. She currently writes for Entertainment Weekly, where she maintains a quarterly romance review column, Hot Stuff, in addition to covering film, TV, and theater. She is a proud graduate of both the University of Southern California and the University of Oxford. Maureen calls Los Angeles home, where you’ll either find her at the beach or in a repertory movie-house, if she’s not writing.

Books by Maureen Lee Lenker

A Star is Scorned

Gilded-Age Hollywood meets Christina Lauren in the third of Maureen Lee Lenker's rompy 1930s rom-coms. When movie star and notorious womanizer Flynn Banks finds his reputation in serious trouble, his studio insists he publicly date his new co-star, Liv De Lesseps, to save it—except Liv might swashbuckle her way into his heart for real.

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It Happened One Fight

City of Girls meets Christina Lauren in this rompy rom-com about a Gilded Age of Hollywood actress accidentally married to her costar nemesis and forced to fake a celebrity romance to save her career.

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