by Jen Calonita
First published 2011
Kaitlin Burke is seventeen, famous, and back in Los Angeles. After a stretch on Broadway and the grind of New York City, she is now starring in a new sitcom alongside Sky, her one-time rival turned closest friend. The show takes off fast, and the attention that follows is not all good. A pack of aggressive paparazzi corners Kaitlin and puts her boyfriend Austin in real danger. She has wanted a normal life before, but this time the wish feels urgent. What she cannot see yet is how much her Hollywood career has quietly shaped the people around her. Then a car accident leaves her with a concussion, and the fog that follows forces her to look at her life from the outside. She sees what she has been missing. This is the sixth and final book in Jen Calonita's Secrets of My Hollywood Life series. Kaitlin arrives at something hard-won: fame carries a price, friendship pays back in ways you do not expect, and home can be worth keeping even when home is Tinseltown.
Genres: coming-of-age, contemporary, young-adult, comedy, family-drama
Vibes: heartfelt, humorous, introspective, relatable, witty
Tropes: found-family, friends-to-lovers, personal-growth, second-chance
Setting: Los Angeles, New York City, Hollywood, Broadway
383 pages · Paperback · Poppy
Content warnings: death