LIGHTS, CAMERA… CONTROVERSY?

REALITY WITH YOU

YOUR NEXT ROMANTIC DRAMA OBSESSION

A second-chance contemporary romance novel that’s The Summer I Turned Pretty and The OC meets Scandal, with main characters in their mid-twenties…

Lennon Young’s life is thrown into upheaval when she’s dropped from her dream record deal, but her one shot at reviving her music career comes with a catch — she has to broadcast her failures on a reality à la The Hills alongside her ex-husband, misunderstood baseball star Dylan Strickland.

With his own comeback from a major PR scandal on the line, Dylan can’t afford distractions, but they quickly learn “reality” TV thrives on scandal over sincerity. They’ll have to outplay the game to avoid losing their reputations, their careers, and most importantly — each other.

A TASTE OF
REALITY WITH YOU

THE VIBES

The Summer I Turned Pretty and 90s/2000s romantic dramas like The OC, but the characters are 25 years old — with a dash of Reputation era

THE TROPES

Second chance, forced proximity, sports romance, high school sweethearts/right person wrong time, brooding cinnamon roll MMC, dual POV

THE SERIES

Arden Beach is a series of standalone romance novels about the residents of a steamy South Florida city teeming with wealth, secrets, and scandal

WHAT READERS ARE SAYING

“L.E. McQuinn delivers a stunning debut with the right amount of heart and steam! I like my rom-coms with a lot of emotional damage and McQuinn did not disappoint me with Reality With You.

McQuinn sprinkles in moments of realistic and raw struggles of love, career goals, and real world challenges that add to the emotional progression of this story. I really enjoyed watching Dylan and Lennon coming crashing back to each other, even as they work deal with their own inner demons and insecurities.

Of course, McQuinn also does a fun job of layering in reality tv-esque drama, scheming characters that will have you screaming, and a desperate need for some side characters to get their own stories.”

Ashley | A Pair of Readers

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“Second chances, rekindled love, protective main leads and all the drama!! This was a great read. I really loved reading the background of each of the main characters. It wasn’t shoved right in the beginning and wasn’t dragged out either. The storyline was well written.

The trauma, heartbreak and drama is attention grabbing and has you wanting to finish the book rather than put it down. The way our main characters go out of their way to protect the other is enduring. Their love for one another was strong and never breaking. It was a young love, wrong time but eventually finding their way back to one another.

Give this book a read. It a good suspenseful one with spice but ooh the drama of a reality tv show.”

Carly M.

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“WOW. I loved everything about this book and it made me crave more second chance romances, for sure. I laughed, teared up, got mad, smiled, ALL the emotions. And when a book can make you FEEL you know it’s good! Such an easy, emotional love story that will have you hooked from the start!”

Ashley B.

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