SET ON YOU – Amy Lea
Berkley
ISBN: 978-0593336571
May 10, 2022
Romantic Comedy 

Boston – Present Day 

Curvy fitness influencer Crystal Chen is popular on Instagram with her workout videos and advice. She frequents a fitness club where there is a particular piece of workout equipment that she uses at her regular time where she mediates and keeps her mind positive. One day Crystal arrives to discover her favorite squat rack is occupied by a man who refuses to give it up. A faceoff ensues, but he refuses to give in. The next time Crystal is in the fitness club, the man is back, again using her favorite equipment. Her phone comes up missing and she confronts the man, but he denies having her phone. It turns out to be embarrassing when her phone is inevitably found. But Crystal is even more embarrassed when she goes to her grandmother’s engagement party and meets the groom-to-be’s grandson—the man from the gym. 

Firefighter Scott Ritchie recently joined the fitness club and is enjoying ticking off the woman who has laid “claim” to a spot in the gym at the squat rack. She intrigues him but gives off a do-not-touch vibe that he loves to irritate. To Scott’s shock, he soon learns that Crystal is his grandfather’s fiancée’s granddaughter. They are going to have to learn to co-exist for the sake of family harmony. But the connection gives Scott a chance to get to know Crystal, and she’s definitely a woman he wants to know better. 

Things start off hot and angry between Crystal and Scott in SET ON YOU, but they’re soon heating each other up. Crystal’s social media influencer business has done well for her. She has a large following on Instagram and women come to her seeking advice on how to work out. She recently broke up with her boyfriend after he cheated on her, so when she arrived at the gym in a bad mood to find a newcomer occupying her spot, it’s no wonder she felt frustrated. Scott, of course, wasn’t going to be intimidated by Crystal. They are literally going toe-to-toe as they battle it out. It helps amps up the sexual tension between them, which turns into a five-alarm fire when they finally meet at the engagement party for their respective grandparents. Crystal is interested in seeing how things go with Scott, but she wants to take it slow after her recent breakup. 

SET ON YOU is a cute and funny tale that will have readers chuckling. You know that when they finally meet outside the gym, it will be a total “oops” moment—and it is. Crystal isn’t sure if she can trust Scott. But a fireman should be trustworthy, right? He also loves his family, which is a positive trait in her book. Of course, they keep running into each other at the gym, but now that they know each other outside the gym, they start to hang out together. Their romance slowly builds throughout SET ON YOU, and when they finally realize that they want to date each other, it is still not pounced upon. Alas, love can’t always be forced to keep to a schedule. Will they finally admit that they can’t live without each other? 

Things are not easy for Crystal and Scott in SET ON YOU, what with their different careers and people wondering what a fit and trim man can see in a curvy fitness purveyor. Can they make it work? Find out the answer in the intriguingly funny SET ON YOU. 

Patti Fischer