Sixteen-year-olds Charlie, Keiran, Brooke, and Hallie have just been signed up for their own reality television show. They can't even believe it. You'll beThe HillsmeetsThe Secret Life of the American Teenager, the Armani-suited executive tells them, and the hottest thing on our network. How could they say no?
But soon enough, cameras following them everywhere and interfering producers surreptitiously scripting their lives start to affect the four best friends' relationships. Brooke seems to want all the screen time. Keiran is abruptly written out of the show--and, consequently, the group's friendship--when she doesn't rate well. As soon as Charlie realizes what's going on, she figures out the perfect way to give the studio and her home audience a much-needed reality check.
Because friends don't let friends do reality shows.
Jen Calonitais the author of the
VIP,
Secrets of My Hollywood Lifeand Fairy Tale Reform School series, and a former magazine editor who has interviewed everyone from Justin Timberlake to Beyonc?. She lives in New York with her husband, Mike; sons, Dylan and Tyler; and their Chihuahua, Captain Jack Sparrow.