“Keeping It in the Family is laugh-out-loud, multi-generational contemporary fiction at its finest. With a will-they-won’t-they romance worthy of Emily Henry, and the nuanced, authentic characters of John Green, Kevin P. Regan’s debut will appeal to male and female readers alike, offering an authentic, comedic and (sometimes) painfully accurate portrayal of growing up in a big family, and what happens when the one that got away suddenly comes back . . .”
She was the last person he wanted to see.
He was her biggest mistake.
Now they’re supposed to be family.
Struggling Hollywood scribe Collin Cassidy has to develop a family comedy under his studio deal. Desperate for ideas, and guilty for never being there, Collin decides to reunite with his family on the east coast after his mother tells him that his sixteen-year-old niece, Audrey, is pregnant.
Community college professor, and part-time lifeguard, Orla Ruane has lived in Cape May, NJ her whole life. Working to pay off a massive student loan debt, she lives with her sister, brother-in-law, and nephew in the family home left to her by her late father. She’s probably a little too close to her family. Which is why she wants the job she just found out is open at NYU. It’s also why she’s shocked when her sister, Siobhan, reveals that her nephew, Noah, got his girlfriend pregnant. Even worse, Siobhan told their estranged mother…
When these two families come together to sort out the teens’ situation Collin and Orla are forced to deal with the unspoken reasons for their own breakup sixteen years prior. It soon becomes apparent that the teenagers have better heads on their shoulders than their adult counterparts.
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Available June 9, 2025
Kevin P. Regan is a writer and former television development executive. He was born and raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania – well before Jim and Pam met there – where his family has run funeral homes since the 1860s. After attending law school, and slumming it one summer in the US Senate, he preferred the corpses.
Regan received his MFA in Writing for Screen and Television from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. He was most recently a staff writer on DAY ONES, the half-hour dramedy from ENTOURAGE creator Doug Ellin and Matthew Vaughn’s MARV. He has developed television projects with producers from Schitt’s Creek (Pop) and Legit (FX).
Previously, he was the Director of Television Development & Production for Yellow Brick Road, under a first look deal with NBC Universal, which produced GENTEFIED for Netflix.
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