The Anti-Heroes

Two best friends, stalled and dissatisfied, change the course of their lives in a wildly funny novel about facing your fears—to the extreme—by New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster.

Once upon a time, Dr. Emily Nichols—the academic kind, not the physician kind—was an eco-crusader who was shot with water cannons, hunted by poachers, and chased by a bulldozer. Now? Action Emily lives in a bland condo with gray walls and teaches disengaged students at a university alongside a risk-allergic boyfriend, asking herself every day: How did I get here?

Then one afternoon Emily and her best friend, people-pleasing real estate agent Liv Bennett, witness an attempted robbery at their local coffee shop that is foiled by a yoga mom wielding a baby stroller. Their hero attributes her bravery to a mysterious class called Fearless, Inc. Its enigmatic and dizzyingly muscular instructor, Zeus, is now fully committed to helping Emily and Liv overcome their fears, too—one thrilling self-help lesson at a time.

Along with a ragtag group of other wimps, Emily and Liv must embrace the passionately unconventional methods of the leader to harness their powers, gain a bracing new perspective on life, act on their impulses, and be the no-holds-barred anti-heroes of their dreams.

Jen Lancaster is the New York Timesbestselling author of the novels Housemoms, Here I Go Again, and The Gatekeepers, and the nonfiction works Welcome to the United States of Anxiety; Bitter Is the New Black; The Tao of Martha; Such a Pretty Fat; Bright Lights, Big Ass; Stories I’d Tell in Bars; Jeneration X; My Fair Lazy; Pretty in Plaid; and I Regret Nothing, which was named an Amazon Best Book of the Year. Regularly a finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards, Jen has sold well over a million books documenting her attempts to shape up, grow up, and have it all―sometimes with disastrous results. She’s also appeared on the Today show, Oprah, CBS This Morning, Fox News, NPR’s All Things Considered, and The Joy Behar Show, among others. She lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband and many ill-behaved pets. Visit her website at www.jenlancaster.com.