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Gorgeous

Inner beauty wants out.

When eighteen-year-old Becky Randle's mother dies, she's summoned from her Missouri trailer park to meet Tom Kelly, the world's top designer. He makes her an impossible offer: He'll create three dresses to transform Becky from a nothing special girl into the most beautiful woman who ever lived.

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Becky thinks Tom is a lunatic, or that he's producing a hidden camera show called World's Most Gullible Poor People. But she accepts, and she's remade as Rebecca. When Becky looks in the mirror, she sees herself - an awkward mess of split ends and cankles. But when anyone else looks at Becky, they see pure five-alarm hotness.

Soon Rebecca is on the cover of Vogue, the new Hollywood darling, and dating celebrities. Then Becky meets Prince Gregory, heir to the British throne, and everything starts to crumble. Because Rebecca aside, Becky loves him. But to love her back, Gregory would have to look past the blinding Rebecca to see the real girl inside. And Becky knows there's not enough magic in the world.

A screamingly defiant, hugely naughty, and impossibly fun free fall past the cat walks, the red carpets, and even the halls of Buckingham Palace, Gorgeousdoes the impossible: It makes you see yourself clearly for the first time.

Mood
cute
Audience
young adultnew adultadult
Length
medium · 336 pages

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