A Midsummer's Nightmare: Kody Keplinger

Sun, sex and ... step-brothers. Another sizzling story from Hamilton High.

Whitley Johnson`s dream summer of shopping, partying and tanning on the beach has just turned into a nightmare. Because Dad didn`t tell her he doesn`t live by the beach anymore, or that he`s no longer a bachelor. He`s picked up and moved to a tiny, lame town called Hamilton and gotten himself a fiance. A fiance whose son just happens to be what`s-his-name from last week`s drunken graduation party one night stand. Just freakin` great.

As if the summer couldn`t get worse, Dad seems to forget Whitley`s even there. She doesn`t fit in with his perfect new country club family, and Whitley does what any kid lucky enough to go all summer unsupervised does: she parties. Hard.

So hard that she doesn`t even notice the good things right under her nose: a younger future step-sister who is just about the only person she`s ever liked, a best friend (even though Whitley swears she doesn`t `do friends`) and a smoking hot, sweet guy who isn`t her step brother (yet) and who actually seems to care for her. It will take all three of them to convince her that they`re not phoneys, and to get Whitley to get through her anger and begin to put the pieces of her family together.