âMade my Bachelor-loving heart very happy.â âRachel Lynn Solomon, author of Today Tonight Tomorrow
The Bachelor meets Gilmore Girls in this laugh-out-loud young adult romance about a girl who joins her mother on a reality dating show for single parentsâonly to fall for a contestantâs son.
Cara Hawnâs life fell apart after her father cheated on her mother and got remarried to a woman Cara canât stand. When Cara accidentally posts a rant about her father online, it goes viralâand catches the attention of the TV producers behind a new reality dating show for single parent families.
The next thing Cara and her mother know, theyâve been cast as leads on the show and are whisked away to sunny Key West where theyâre asked to narrow a field of suitors and their kids down to one winning pair. All of this is outside of Caraâs comfort zone, from the meddling producers to the camera-hungry contestants, especially as Cara and her mother begin to clash on which suitors are worth keeping around. And then comes Connor.
As the son of a contestant, Connor is decidedly off-limits. Except that he doesnât fit in with the cutthroat atmosphere in all the same ways as Cara, and she canât get him out of her head. Now Cara must juggle her growing feelings while dodging the cameras and helping her mom pick a bachelor they both love, or else risk fracturing their family even more for the sake of ratings. Maybe thereâs a reason most people donât date on TV.