Before heading off for college, sixteen-year-old small town girls Abby and Jamie are headed for the big cities! Shy, innocent Abby will be a nanny for a posh New York City family, while smart, no-nonsense Jamie works her nanny gig in sunny, celeb-studded L.A. Talk about culture shock. And, between the eye-popping parties, hot boys, high-maintenance kids, and a heaping of drama, the girls can barely squeeze in time for e-mail catch-ups. But their wild summers on opposite coasts will teach Abby and Jamie things they never knew about love, lust, truth, lies, themselves . . . and each other.

ABBY

He was disgusting! A drunk perv pressed up against me, breathing vodka fumes into my face.

I couldn’t move. There was no room to back up or wriggle sideways. The incredibly jammed subway train that the human Breathalyzer and I were riding was stalled between two stations, and miles from my destination!

I was supposed to be at Lila Matheson’s penthouse by nine a.m. IT was already nine-thirty, and I was trapped – getting what felt like an alcohol face peel, in a rancid tunnel under Manhattan.

This was so not the way I imagined my first day on the job!

I’d always wanted to go to New York. And I was totally blown away when the nanny agency found positions there for me and my best friend, Jamie…

JAMIE

“If Los Angeles, California, is not in your travel plans today,” chirped the robo-flight attendant, “kindly deplane at this time.”

If I freakin’ could, I would.

I wasn’t supposed to be on de-plane in de-first place. And Los Angeles, California, was not in my travel plans, today or any other day.

Yes, I wanted out of mind-numbing Shafton.

Yes, I wanted a gig that paid big, where I could make enough money in one semester to fund two at Ohio State.

Yes, I wanted to meet hot guys with brains and sensitivity.

But the whole idea was to go to open-all-night New York City. Where two ready-for-anything, smart, sexy best friends would explore, discover, meet, greet, and tear up the town.

What part of that did fate not understand?