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A sharply hilarious and ultimately heartfelt novel about a former teen superstar who grudgingly agrees to a reboot of the show that made her infamous from the author of Reasonable AdultsTwenty years after Ocean Views went off the air the beloved TV show about teenage romance and angst is back No one is more surprised than its former star Agnes Ness Larkin that shes agreed to step back into the role of Aubrey Grant After her father/manager took off with her earnings Ness ran away from the spotlight in shame But maybe its time to stare her past and her castmates in their discreetly Botoxed facesThat enthusiasm lasts until the first table read which in costar Cocos words is like a high school reunion without the dim lighting or booze Ness assumed her old fling Hayes Beaumont would be too busy doing Big Hollywood Things to take part but there he is seated beside her exuding pheromones and successEn route to the deluxe Bahamas resort where theyre to start filming the cast gets stranded by a storm Stuck on a tiny island with a paltry cache of food and quite possibly the most useless survival group in history Ness tries to reconcile her youthful dreams with where shes ended upfiguratively and literally The producers wanted drama on and offscreen and theyre going to get it but where will Ness be when its all over