Irene's got big dreams-someday she's going to own an exclusive salon in L.A. It's a good thing she has dreams, since her reality is harsh. She's just Been fired From her mom's Beau-ty salon for her tear-jerking shampooing technique, and is Forced to take the only other job she can find-babysitting.Now she's stuck at the beach entertaining kids while every-one else is having a glamorous summer. Will she ever get a life？ Then Irene meets Starla, a mind-bogglingly beautiful lifeguard, whose diva attitude, dangerous obsessions, male admirers, and fiery blog hold enough real-liFe drama and romance to Fill a book. Suddenly Irene finds that the count-down to real life is over and her Fate is in her own hands.

1. I Am fIRED

2. Something Turns up

3. I Do Not get to Think It Over

4. I Receive an Impractical E-mail,and Then a Better One

5. I Taks Fate into My Ovon Hands

6. A Beginning

7. Little Lainie

8. Some Cold ajater

9. I Have a Small Realization

10. Lainie Astonishes Me

11. I Am Slightly Slighted

12. I Make the Acquaintance of Starla

13. Affirmed and Reminded

14. I Make an Impact

15. The Morse House

16. Mischief

17. Two Postings

18. A Loss

19. A greater loss

20. A Small Reprimand

21. A Bad Angel

22. Longing and Disappointment

23. My Mother Makes up Her Mind About Me

24. An unexpected Request

25. I Attempt to Explain Myself

26. My Resolution,and Its Sequel

27. Intrigue

28. Preoccupations,New and Old

29. I Am given a Reprieve

30. Visitors

31. I Mess up

32. Reality gives Me a Nudge

33. A Heroic Twist

34. Affirmed and Resolute

35. I Break My Resolution

36. I Become an Almost Heroine