This book contains explicit sex scenes with enthusiastic consent. There is also swearing, alcohol-use, mention of a hungover client vomiting on the hero’s shoes, and some family pressure felt by the hero.

 

The heroine Lauren is plus-sized and curvy. This story isn’t about her weight or size. There is no on-page fat-shaming or fat-phobia. No diets or third act weight loss.

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Lauren does feel occasionally insecure about her body, but it’s the result of her professional confidence taking a hit and trickling down into her sense of self, giving her a few intrusive thoughts about how Jax, who is a personal trainer to celebrities, might feel about her body. She works hard to immediately self-correct those thoughts, and they don’t play into any conflict in the story. And while Jax loves her body, he doesn’t fetishize her. He is aware of how the beauty standards of the industry he is a part of cause harm, and also feels pressure to conform to them himself.

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As a fat person living in the world and feeling mostly good about myself most of the time, I hope I’ve represented Lauren in a way that isn't harmful, and that maybe some of you can see yourselves in her, too.