- A small-town girl new to Manhattan gets the make-over treatment from her gay cousin, leading to a whirlwind of romantic adventures.
- Small town girl Celeste Blodgett moves from Bangor, Maine to Manhattan when she gets a job with the New York Examiner, but hears there it's only fact checking, with little prospects for real journalism. Her welcoming young flat neighbor Kyle Halley in an interior designer, who helps her to give her apartment a make-over. At a party she learns her cousin is gay and goes by the new name Dana Harrison; he promises to teach her the city way with a fashionable image transformation, which succeeds with the help of various gay friends. Now she's ready for social life, hoping to impress her boss, reputedly womanizing magazine section editor Mitch Tanzer. He accepts to read her work, but says he can't use it because it's unethical given their personal relationship- then she finds reality is different...—KGF Vissers
- Straight out of college, naive but intellectual Celeste Blodgett moves from her sheltered life in Bangor, Maine to New York City to work as an editorial content assistant at the prestigious New York Examiner newspaper, the move despite the concerns of her parents that she will be out of her depth in the scary big city. Celeste places little effort on her appearance, she feeling that "looks" in their overall context should not be important and that the quality of her writing should speak for itself. Almost immediately upon arriving in New York, she finds it is the antithesis of the exciting life she was imagining, from the unfriendly people, to the apartment a proverbial "friend of a friend of a friend" secured for her ending up being a dump, to the job which is not a writing one as she believed but rather is as a fact checker. The only seeming bright lights are the kindness of her next door neighbor, interior designer Kyle Hadley, who, in letting her guard down with him, she mistakenly believes is gay solely because of his chosen profession, and her straight-arrow boss Hilly assigning her to the Sunday magazine section under the editorial direction of Mitch Tanzer, whose writing she admires, although it doesn't hurt that he is young and handsome. In meeting her cousin Dana Harrison (he changing it from too suburban sounding Blodgett), who she has not seen in a decade and who blossomed into his open, gay self since moving to New York and Dana's equally flamboyant core group of friends, Celeste is convinced to let them give her a makeover, as it seems that people like the magazine's head writer, put together Lauren Rawley-Simms, got to where she is in life by playing on the fact that she is a woman through and through. The makeover does the trick as she is finally noticed by Mitch. In getting closer to Mitch, Celeste may get a more accurate view of him as an editor and man as not the idol she had placed on a pedestal, and learn how to move through life in New York in its good and bad, that good which she learns truly is Kyle who liked her romantically from the start for who she really is.—Huggo
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