Contents

Chapter One

It was totally surreal: There I was in the midst…

Chapter Two

After the meetings, we were divided into groups for our…

Chapter Three

“And you are…?” asked the ice-cold voice as I lingered…

Chapter Four

After work, Gabe and Teagan took me to our pad…

Chapter Five

I once asked my grandfather how he went from being…

Chapter Six

Okay, I have a newfound respect for models. I used…

Chapter Seven

I came home, starry-eyed but exhausted. I hiked up the…

Chapter Eight

“You’re quite the little worker bee, aren’t you?” asked Daphne.

Chapter Nine

The next night, Daphne ‘n’ company brought me to what…

Chapter Ten

Back at work, I felt like a double agent—bosom buds…

Chapter Eleven

Jane popped by CeCe’s office as my boss was taking…

Chapter Twelve

I avoided Daphne the rest of that tense afternoon. The…

Chapter Thirteen

It was time.

Chapter Fourteen

“It’s okay,” Gabe cooed, holding my hair back as I…

Chapter Fifteen

Back slaving in CeCe-land, my newly empowered ego was just…

Chapter Sixteen

“How about this? It would look awesome on you with…

Chapter Seventeen

I bounded out of bed and to my clothing rack…

Chapter Eighteen

When I emerged from the subway on Eighty-sixth and Lexington,…

Chapter Nineteen

What came next was an Academy Awards–style montage of burgeoning…

Chapter Twenty

The grand glass-ceiling ballroom of the Manhattan Museum of Art…

Chapter Twenty-One

“There you are!” I said, trying to be casual but…

Chapter Twenty-Two

The next day at work I felt hit by a…

Chapter Twenty-Three

“Hey, Kira, can I talk to you?”

Chapter Twenty-Four

After passing out in a shivering damp mass under my…

Chapter Twenty-Five

“Hi, Matt, where are you?” I asked, walking along Seventy-second…

Chapter Twenty-Six

I tried to lay as low as humanly possible the…

Chapter Twenty-Seven

I was unprepared for what went down the next day.

Chapter Twenty-Eight

After an Oscar-worthy reenactment of the war zone that was…

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Luckily I didn’t have too much time during the weekend…

Chapter Thirty

After a night of full MSG binging, I returned to…

Chapter Thirty-One

“Ready?”

Epilogue

I always love a good update, so let me just…


Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Other Books by Carrie Karasyov & Jill Kargman

Copyright

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