Not a Fixer-Upper

A Love Story

De: M. A. Bard

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Riley Hart is not a fixer-upper. Not anymore. Four flights up in a too-small Brooklyn walk-up, she’s rebuilt her life from thrift-store chaos and therapy homework: bathroom-door Non-Negotiables, a list of Things I Will Not Do Anymore, and a hard-won belief that “no” doesn’t require a TED Talk. After the bathroom-floor era of dating men who treated her like extra credit, Riley has exactly one plan: stay funny, stay open, but never again bleed herself dry just to be chosen.
Then comes the day of lobby-level chaos: post-therapy over-sharing at the office Keurig, a stranger who calls her “funny” instead of “too much,” and a meet-cute that refuses to stay a one-off. Miles Avery is calm where she’s kinetic, rich where she’s “rent problem,” and weirdly unbothered by the Queens County Fair ghost story that gave her a lifelong humiliation nickname. When a late-night Google reveals he’s the kind of rich that comes with profiles and metal credit cards, Riley’s old scripts light up: fun poor girlfriend, charity case, fixer-upper with great banter.
Armed with Dr. Kline’s Dating Experiment Rules, a bathroom door full of evolving commandments, and a best friend who treats gossip like a sacred duty, Riley decides to treat this almost-relationship like science: data, not doom. If Miles can survive Lena’s bar tests, Vermont cows, snobby friends who call her “dating up,” and the terrifying moment she says, “I’m not your project,” maybe love doesn’t have to mean self-abandonment.
Told with sharp humour, big feelings, and an unapologetically therapy-positive lens, Not a Fixer-Upper: A Love Story follows one woman who refuses to be renovated into someone else’s dream—and a man who falls in love with her exactly as she is, bathroom graffiti and all.