

Meanwhile Amanda is introduced to the wealthy, charismatic, and deeply troubled Pax Westerbrook. Strong, smart, and determined, she gives Amanda something she's never had-a role model. But it's his wife, Lindsay, who really captures Amanda's imagination.

And then, finally, help arrives-in the form of Tom Davis, a successful lawyer with political aspirations who grew up just a few towns over from Amanda. Amanda Beth Luker has spent her whole life desperately looking for someone who can show her the way out of her trailer park Florida town.

Read full overviewįrom international #1 best-selling authors Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus comes a story about a girl from the trailer parks of central Florida and the two powerful men who shape her life-one of whom will raise her up to places she never imagined, the other of whom will threaten to destroy her. At least there's one bright spot in the train wreck that is her suddenly public senior year: Jesse's crush has also made the cast.Īs the producers manipulate the lives of their "characters" to heighten the drama, and Us Weekly covers become a regular occurrence for Jesse, she must struggle to remember one thing: the difference between real and the real real.From international #1 best-selling authors Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus comes a story about a girl from the trailer parks of central Florida and the two powerful men who shape her life-one of whom will raise her up to places she never imagined. All she has to do is trade her best friend for the glam clique she's studiously avoided, her privacy for a 24/7 mike, and her sense of right and wrong for "what sells on camera.". But there's a tuition check attached to being on the show, and Jesse needs the cash so she can be the first in her family to attend college. When Jesse O'Rourke gets picked for a "documentary" being filmed at her school in the Hamptons she's tempted to turn down the offer. Imagine that your hometown-your school-is the first place XTV descends to set up cameras. Imagine there was never a Laguna Beach, a Newport Harbor, the shimmering Hills. The bestselling authors of The Nanny Diaries introduce a new heroine to root for: Jesse O'Rourke, coffee barista, high school senior, and unwitting reality TV star.
