This summer's not just hot…it's crazy hot.

It's been a year since the hottest au pairs ever saw the Hamptons, and they're certainly older-though not necessarily wiser. Or drama-free.

Eliza, Jacqui, and Mara thought they'd be spending the summer apart, but when Eliza's new stepmother finds herself in need of some nannying help around the megamansion with the step-monsters, Eliza makes a call…and Jacqui and Mara wind up with two first-class tickets to the Hamptons.

After ruling her first year at Parsons, Eliza, the up-and-coming starlet-turned-designer, is opening her own boutique on super posh Main Street. But it's not just Eliza's career that's on the fast track-her relationship with Jeremy is too. Too bad he's moving too fast for Eliza to keep up.

Brazilian beauty Jacqui is trying to be a good, responsible au pair. But it's tough when there's a hot British photographer following you around, telling you to quit your job and become an international supermodel. All she wants is to make enough money to pay for NYU…so what happens when she gets a much bigger offer?

After getting fired from her travel-writing job and dumped at the airport by her journalist boyfriend, Mara settles for a summer chasing toddlers once again. There's one benefit to nannying: she'll have plenty of material for the novel she's writing about being an au pair-and an It Girl-in the Hamptons. Nothing's going to distract her from the task at hand…except perhaps her old flame, Ryan Perry.

Can our three favorite Hamptons girls survive the craziest, hottest summer yet?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Melissa de la Cruz is the author of many books for teens and adults, including the best-selling The Au Pairs series, which has been published in ten countries and was sold to Warner Brothers Studios as a major motion picture to be produced by Flower Films and Alloy Entertainment. Her other books include the Blue Bloods series (which is an ALA Top Ten Quick Pick), the trilogy Angels on Sunset Boulevard and the novels Cat's Meow and Fresh off the Boat. She co-authored the tongue-in-chic handbooks The Fashionista Files and How to become Famous in Two Weeks or Less. She co-edited the anthology Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Love, Lust and Friendship between Straight Women and Gay Men, and contributed the funny-and-sad-but-true story about her senior prom to the anthology 21 Proms, and stories to the collections Mistletoe and 666: The Number of the Beast.

She has appeared as an expert on style, trends and fame for CNN, FOX, and E! and has written for many publications including Teen Vogue, Seventeen, CosmoGirl!, Glamour, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Allure, Cosmopolitan, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and McSweeney's. In 2005, Jane magazine called her a "socialite" of which she is duly proud.

Melissa graduated salutatorian from her all-girls private school and majored in English and Art History at Columbia University, where she was elected Junior Class President. She likes to say she minored in nightclubs and shopping. She was a journalist covering the New York style and social scene for a long time but now spends her days writing novels and spending her book advance money on way-too-expensive handbags that she only carries for three months before she gets bored with them. She recently became a mother and lives with her husband and adorable baby daughter in the Hollywood Hills. They travel to New York City and the Hamptons often, but not often enough.

Look out for her new tween series THE ASHLEYS, debuting from Simon & Schuster in December 2007 about the coolest seventh-graders ever to wear saddle-shoes!

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