Three skinny socialites should be a pushover after the rough and tumble world of Wall Street. Right?
Love, Lies, and Reality TV
Kate Ryan once had the perfect life ? a successful legal career, a beautiful North Shore home, and financial security. Then the financial crisis destroyed everything.
Her husband disappears overseas. Her legal career collapses. And suddenly Kate finds herself desperate for a paycheck.
When she's offered a role on a local reality television show called Gold Coast Wives, she tells herself it's temporary. Easy money. A harmless distraction while she rebuilds her life.
She could not be more wrong.
Thrown into a world of camera crews, staged drama, social climbers, and backstabbing castmates, Kate quickly learns that reality television has very little to do with reality. Between an aging soap star, a former homecoming queen with a grudge, and producers determined to manufacture conflict, Kate becomes the reluctant outsider in a glittering world of wealth and manipulation.
But as the show spirals into chaos, Kate discovers something unexpected: the strength to reclaim her voice, rebuild her confidence, and redefine what success truly means.
Set against the backdrop of Long Island's Gold Coast, Gold Coast Wives is a witty, emotionally satisfying novel about reinvention, female rivalry, marriage, motherhood, and the seductive chaos of reality TV.
If you are a secret Bravo fan, treat yourself to this humorous slice of The Real Housewives. The Real Housewives of Long Island? Why not!
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Meet Bernadette Walsh
I have always been a bookworm and had always meant to write a novel "someday." You know, when I won the lottery and could live in beach house and look out onto the water and feel inspired. Twelve years ago I decided to stop waiting for my winning lottery ticket and sat down and started writing. In between work and family obligations, I piled the words on top of each other until they formed sentences, paragraphs, chapters and eventually a book. While I've hopped around genres, all of my books to date have a common theme: strong women handling what life throws at them the best way they can.
I am also the host of a podcast, Nice Girls Reading Naughty Books.
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"In this novel, Bernadette Walsh depicts reality shows so, well, realistically that it left me laughing out loud. All the behind-the-scenes plotting, scheming, and planning was just as I've always thought reality shows would be. I think there's a bit of Kate in all of us." Three skinny socialites should be a pushover after the rough and tumble world of Wall Street. Right?
Kate Ryan may be au fait with making high-powered legal decisions, but she's about to submit to the rules of reality TV, where nothing is what it seems. Who'd have thought a few days with the cameras rolling for a low-rent cable show would be so challenging, or that the claws of a former homecoming queen, a washed-up soap star and a whiny cat-lover would be so sharp?