Title: The Package Deal
Subtitle: My (not-so) Glamorous Transition from Single Gal to Instant Mom
First published: 2009
Description: Meet Izzy Rose--a hilarious and chic new stepmom trying to come to terms with the package deal. A single "middle-class socialite" living in San Francisco, Izzy loved her career as a successful, Emmy Award-winning TV producer and she was fine with the fact that she was unmarried and kid-less at thirty-five. But, then she fell in love with an irresistible Southern man named Hank and her Izzy-centric lifestyle turned upside down.  In short order, Izzy finds herself saying I DO to becoming a wife and "instant mom" to Hank's two sons and packing her bags for a new life in Austin, Texas. There, Izzy struggles to hold on to a bit of her professional identity while reinventing the stepmother role in her sassy, stylish, but also loving and vulnerable way. Honest and daring, The Package Deal is a toast to the richness of her new life and a tribute to any woman whose ever fallen in love and then asked, What exactly did I get myself into?From the Trade Paperback edition.
Subjects: Family relationships, Stepmothers, Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Ranch houses, Stepfamilies, Domestic Architecture
LC classification: HQ759.92 .R66 2009