When a Pretty Woman Smiles

Publisher Marketing: This small town novel begins in Manhattan. Tony Rice is a handsome liar. Actually, as he sees it, working on Madison Avenue he lies for a living. And when his high-powered ad agency decides that Americans are yearning for the simple life and an exit from the rat race, hot-shot Tony and his research team are forced into a secret mission: six weeks of undercover work in sleepy little Maddox, Iowa. Not exactly his dream assignment, but when not one but two pretty women smile at him, Tony soon finds himself romancing both sexy Martina and lovely Laurel, with, of course, a mounting series of wild lies. Back with the team in New York, the usually fickle Tony finds he's fallen hard for one of those small town sweethearts back in Maddox. But when he returns to what he hopes will be open arms, Tony finds only rejection. Feeling badly betrayed, the love of his life says he can never be trusted again. So now what? With his life in a shambles, Tony must do nothing less than fix his flawed and broken heart. "Mad Men meet Where The Heart Is in this delicious romantic comedy, when a hard-hearted advertising exec falls for the woman of his dreams and the small town of his nightmares. Charming, tender and wonderfully written."-Victoria Best, Tales from the Reading Room Contributor Bio:  Locicero, T V T. V. LoCicero has been writing both fiction and non-fiction across five decades. He's the author of the true crime books Murder in the Synagogue (Prentice-Hall), on the assassination of Rabbi Morris Adler, and Squelched: The Suppression of Murder in the Synagogue. His novels include The Car Bomb and Admission of Guilt, the first two books in The Detroit im dyin Trilogy, and The Obsession and The Disappearance, the first two in The Truth Beauty Trilogy, Seven of his shorter works are now available as ebooks. These are among the stories and essays he has published in various periodicals, including Commentary, Ms. and The University Review, and in the hard-cover collections Best Magazine Articles, The Norton Reader and The Third Coast. About his "checkered past" LoCicero says: "At one time or another I've found work as an industrial spy; a producer of concert videos for Rolling Stone's greatest singer of all time; one of the few male contributors to Gloria Steinem's Ms. Magazine; a writer of an appellate brief for those convicted in one of Detroit's most sensational drug trials; the author of a true crime book that garnered a bigger advance than a top ten best-selling American novel; a project coordinator/fundraiser for a humanities council; a small business owner; the writer/producer/director of numerous long-form documentaries; a golf course clerk; a college instructor who taught courses in advanced composition, music and poetry appreciation, introduction to philosophy, remedial English, and American Literature--all in the same term; a ghostwriter; a maker of corporate/industrial videos; a member of a highway surveying crew; a speechwriter for auto executives; a TV producer of live event specials; an editorial writer; the creator of 15-second corporate promos for the PBS series Nature; and a novelist. "There is a sense in which that last occupation was the reason for all the others. Almost anyone who's ever tried to make ends meet as a novelist knows what I'm talking about." For more info: www.tvlocicero.com