Gold Coast Wives

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!