Lucy Ellis moved to the Big Apple to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a fashion designer, but the native Midwesterner has just about had it with the city. A mousy, self-conscious girl trapped in a job at a designer sweatshop, Lucy has been mistreated, road-blocked, and otherwise insulted since her arrival. Overwhelmed by city life, Lucy is about to pack it all in and return home to Minnesota. Then she meets Wyatt.After being publicly dissed by the glamour girl hed been dating, man-about-town (and bored Ph.D. anthropologist) Wyatt Hayes wants to prove hes still at the top of his game and boasts to his best friend that he can transform any girleven wallflower Lucy Ellisinto this years It girl. If he can fool the upper crust of New York society into thinking an impostor like Lucy is the real thing, he can rip the chiffon veil off the whole Park Avenue social scene.Lucys an unlikely candidate to become a red-carpet butterfly, but she considers it her last resort and jumps at the opportunity to become somebody in New York. Wyatt begins to rigorously train Lucy in the style, sounds, and sensibilities of socialites born with entire sets of silver spoons in their mouths. Three months of preparation culminate in Lucys appearance at the ultra-exclusive Fashion Forum Gala, where Lucy and Wyatt finally confront New Yorks aristocracyand their feelings for each other.Set against the glittering backdrop of contemporary Manhattan, The Overnight Socialite puts a 21st-century sheen on a timeless story of transformation and unlikely love.