A laugh-out-loud romcom about a basic beautician who is dragged into the high-stakes world of espionage after she is recruited for an undercover operation.
 
Beauty technician Kylie Clarke is the kind of woman that nobody takes seriously, including herself. Until MI5 recruits her. Turns out, they’ve been surveilling a luxury salon that's suspected of being a front for a major criminal operation. They need someone undercover on the inside, and they’ve learned the hard way that it’s far easier to train a beautician to be a spy than a spy to master a perfect manicure…

Armed with the new alias “Kelly,” a manicure kit, and a very inconvenient attraction to her assigned handler—the sardonic and handsome Agent Locke—she soon learns that juggling waxing appointments, coded messages, and serious sexual tension isn't as easy as it looks. Can Kylie nail her most high-stakes assignment yet, or will the mission (and her heart) end up in complete chaos? 

Rae Manning is the pseudonym of Sarra Manning.

Sarra Manning's many novels, which have been translated into numerous languages, include Unsticky, London With Love and The Last Days of Summer, which publishes in the US in June 2026 and The Love Library, which publishes in the UK in June 2026. Sarra has also written a number of YA novels, and several light-hearted romantic comedies under a pseudonym. She has written for The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, ELLE, Grazia, Stylist, You Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar and was most recently, Literary Editor of Red. Sarra lives in London surrounded by piles and piles of books.