The daughter of decidedly liberal parents, Vanessa Carlisle plans a post-high-school European trip at the side of her bookstore friend, Taylor, and pursues an acceptance into Yale, goals that are thwarted by her family's unexpected discovery that she has a stepbrother from her father's Hollywood past. Original. 50,000 first printing.
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Coast through senior year. Graduate. Travel around Europe. Join boyfriend out East for college. That's the plan. Then the phone rings. Vanessa has the next year of her life pretty much figured out. Sure, there's some parental convincing to do but she and her celebrity-obsessed gal pal Taylor pretty much think their plan is airtight. Then Vanessa's parents get a mysterious phone call and drop a bombshell on her that she never could have imagined. She has a half brother. And he's coming to live with them. If that wasn't bad enough, this half brother is none other than Hollywood bad boy Reed Vaughn. He's famous. He's going to be a senior, too. And he's going to ruin Vanessa's life for sure....
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