America's Most Eligible: Season 10

America's Most Eligible: Season 10 is the first book of the America's Most Eligible series. It is alternatively known as America's Most Eligible, Book 1. It is followed by America's Most Eligible: All Stars and America's Most Eligible: Wedding Edition.

Summary
''Battle it out in a reality TV show to determine who is most eligible! Create alliances, make enemies, even fall in love... the choice is up to you!''

Chapter 1: Who Has What It Takes
"Battle it out in a reality TV show to determine who is most eligible! Create alliances, make enemies, even fall in love... the choice is up to you!"

Chapter 2: First Impressions
"As the season premiere continues, will your first impression outshine the competition?"

Chapter 3: Flirting for the Win
"It's week two of America's Most Eligible, and you're headed to Miami's hottest club! Will you withstand the heat, or are you about to get burned?"

Chapter 4: All Hands on Deck
"When you and the other contestants head out on the water for a romantic group date, will it be smooth sailing? Or will you rock the boat?"

Chapter 5: Get Your Head In The Game
"When you hit the beach for a lively challenge, on-set drama threatens to ruin your fun in the sun. Will you really your team to victory?"

Chapter 6: Rumor Has It
"Jen gives you a mission: win over the hearts and minds of your housemates. Will you uncover secrets, forge alliances, or heat things up along the way?"

Chapter 7: Caught In the Spotlight
"When rumors swirl, it's up to you to turn the tables... with the help of a friend!"

Chapter 8: Shut Up and Dance
"All eyes are on you during a sexy salsa dancing date. But will the rumors keep you dancing to someone else's tune?"

Chapter 9: When the Competition Gets Fierce
"With Piper taking over as your producer, she demands to know... do you have what it takes?"

Chapter 10: Without a Paddle
"You've been nominated for Elimination! With the clock ticking, will you find out who set you up?"

Chapter 11: Here to Make Friends
"When you head to the Jury House, how will you handle coming face-to-face with old enemies?"

Chapter 12: Don't Call It a Comeback
"The eliminated contestants battle it out for a chance to return to the game. But will your comeback be cut short?"

Chapter 13: Back To Reality
"You're back in the competition and gearing up for a high fashion Challenge! But will claws come out when you hit the catwalk?"

Chapter 14: Peace of Mind
"When tensions rise among the other contestants, it's up to you to keep the good times rolling!"

Chapter 15: Kiss and Tell
"When Jen tells you to amp up your sex appeal, can you kiss your way to the win?"

Chapter 16: Where Wishes Come True
"You're off to an amusement park for an afternoon of fun... but will the upcoming elimination rain on your parade?"

Chapter 17: Lights, Camera, Sabotage!
"Now that you know who Eliminated you, will you get your revenge? Or will you take the high road?"

Chapter 18: Before The Storm
"On the last Date of the summer, you finally get a shot at love. But will the competition put you on the rocks?"

Chapter 19: Here For the Right Reasons
"In AME's live finale, you're facing the last Challenge of the season! But with old enemies stirring up trouble, can you make it to the Final Two?"

Chapter 20: And the Winner Is...
"AME Season 10 is finally coming to an end! Will you take home the prize? Or will you go home empty-handed?"

Friendship Indicator
The book follows the same relationship system as the Endless Summer series. Certain choices can make the contestants like, dislike, or stay neutral about you and can affect the story in the future. Over time, their behavior toward you will change.

Your relationships with other characters are improved or damaged, contestants in America's Most Eligible have a friendship emoji right next to their name whenever they speak. The color and face on the emoji indicates the nature of that character's relationship to Your Character. The emoji range from an angry blue face for enemies to a laughing reddish face for best friends and a cherry-red heart for lovers. Build alliances, make enemies, and even find romance.

Characters with friendship indicators are Your Character's opponents such as: The Handsome Stranger and The Beautiful Contestant respectively; as well as Han, Teagan, Derek, Ryder, Bianca, Ivy, Zeke, and Lina.

Here are the different statuses that the emojis can indicate, all of which represent how they feel about you, from lowest to highest:
 * Enemy
 * Hate
 * Neutral
 * Like
 * Close
 * Ally (The other contestants need to be Ally or higher in order for them to vote for you on Finale Night)
 * In Love

Format:
The Cast will compete in sexy Challenges, go on exciting Dates, and Vote each other out of the house one by one. The last person standing will win the grand prize of $500,000 and a romantic trip for two! Jen also tells Your Character that there is an Audience Vote, which means that the viewers get a say in what goes in the beach house. At the Season 10 premiere in Chapter 1 Carson tells the audience how the title of 'America's Most Eligible' is a very special title. One that they don't hand out to just anyone. He goes onto say how past winners have gone on to be authors, social media influencers, amongst other things. However if Your Character chooses to ask the Handsome Stranger in Chapter 1 if he thinks that you could win, his response is quite an angry one. He goes onto say how the winners of this show are cutthroat, manipulative, and even cruel. That they the stab their 'friends' in the back to get to the top.

Confessional:
A confessional is what contestant interviews are called according to Jen in Chapter 1. The producers will ask you or the other contestants some questions, and then the editing staff will, in turn, cut your answers together with footage from these aforementioned interviews. In order to get a little bit of everything, Jen explains to Your Character that they do interviews before the big events and some after.

In Chapter 3, Jen reminds you that in Your Character's first confessional, You pick to play as The Flirt 😘, The Sweetheart ❤ or as The Villain 😈. You can stick whatever role you initially chose, but what matters most is that you provide Jen with consistent answers. This way she can edit the footage into a story arc. While in theory you could play as The Villain one week, a flirt the next, and a sweetheart after that, it's not recommended, as it's always best not to confuse America too much. Moreover, a consistent confessional personality goes a long way. As a result, it's best to stick to your chosen role as often as possible all summer. The attitude you pick now could have lasting consequences on your game later on...

Twists:

 * Returning Contestant: The first twist revealed was the Handsome Stranger coming back into the competition. Derek reveals to Your Character in Chapter 2 that he was the runner-up last season (i.e. Season 9) and was a fan favorite.
 * Combining the Challenge and Elimination Ceremony: Derek also reveals to Your Character in Chapter 3 that the Bottom Two for the week usually stick around for a while so they can cause drama. Thus, combining both the challenge and elimination ceremony was another twist.
 * Cash Tokens: In Chapter 8 and week 4 of the competition, the contestants have the option of forfeiting this week's challenge and go for the cash tokens instead. There are six in total, but you have to split three with your partner. Moreover, Carson explains that you can't keep them. Instead, you can give them to other contestants. This is an easy way of improving your relationships with the others, but are only good for one week.
 * Bottom Three: Also in Chapter 8 and week 4 of the competition, If Zeke and Han/Lina somehow did not lose the challenge, Han/Lina will join the Bottom Two to make it a bottom 3 since it is a condition of the audience immunity. Even if you did not accept the immunity, this will still happen since Ivy did accept hers.
 * Second Bottom Three: In Chapter 9, after the Bottom Two of the Photoshoot Challenge were revealed, Carson also declared that due to an Audience Vote that occurred earlier in the season, the contestant (currently unknown which) who won that Audience Vote had the power to nominate a third person for Elimination in Week 5 and the nominee is none other than Your Character.
 * Double Elimination: During the Week 5 Elimination Ceremony, instead of voting out one of the Bottom Three to leave the competition, two contestants would be eliminated alongside one another during the ceremony.
 * Comeback After Elimination: In Chapter 11, after Your Character is eliminated from the competition and spends some time in the Jury House with the other eliminated contestants, the AME crew appears at the Jury House, something they don't normally do, and Carson announces that one of the eliminated contestants who wins the Comeback Challenge will return to the game and have another chance to be crowned America's Most Eligible.
 * Returning Contestants As Hosts: Once the game comes down to only Your Character, Handsome Stranger, and Ivy, Carson announces that for the last week of the season, Vince and Sierra, who betrayed Handsome Stranger last season, will be returning to help host the finale.
 * Hidden Prize for being in the Final 2:In Chapter 20, it is revealed that as a prize for making it to the final 2, you are invited back for the next season of AME, which will be an All Stars edition!

Locations featured in Book 1

 * America's Most Eligible Mansion

Soundtracks
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Spoilers

 * On June 14, 2018, a trailer was released across Pixelberry's various social media platforms and various things were revealed in this first sneak peek.
 * Similar to other books, the first two chapters were released at its release.
 * The series takes place in Miami, Florida and seems to draw inspiration from shows like: The Bachelor/The Bachelorette, UnREAL and the Big Brother TV series, respectively.
 * The player was to expect more drama, romance, and all kinds of hookups with the rest of the contestants.
 * It was also revealed on June 14, 2018, that the season 10 part of the title is part of the story and we would learn more about the past nine seasons as we play through the book.
 * In response to a player, Pixelberry confirmed via Facebook that you will be able to play as a male or female character.
 * The summary for the first chapter was subsequently revealed on June 15, 2018.
 * On this same day, an account for one of the contestants for season 10 was created and on June 18, 2018, the account revealed she'd be a contestant.
 * Bianca wrote in her Twitter bio that she is a swimsuit model 🌸 and a shoe connoisseur🌸
 * On June 18, 2018, a sneak peek featuring Carson, the host of this reality TV show, was unveiled.
 * Additionally, a second sneak peek was released, featuring two female characters who are contestants: Mack the tough girl and Ivy the debutante.
 * On June 19, 2018, two sneak peeks were unveiled: a character bio for Mack, and a second sneak peek featuring Derek the super fan, and Han the Pro Athlete.
 * On June 20, 2018, two sneak peeks were unveiled: a character bio for Derek on Tumblr, and a bio for Han on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
 * On this same day, Pixelberry released a third sneak peek featuring Bianca the swimsuit model and Zeke the firefighter
 * On June 21, 2018, it was confirmed via the Choices App that like the newer series of books, the first 2 chapters would be released on the launch day.
 * On this same day, a character bio for Bianca was released across various social media platforms.
 * On June 22, 2018, it was revealed that Teagan was picked as our go to dance partner, and a character bio was subsequently released.
 * A sneak peek for Ryder's bio was revealed in Tumblr.
 * On this same day, a sneak peek of Lina the party girl and Adam the bad boy was released and implies that they could be love interests to Your Character.
 * Additionally, in response to a player, Pixelberry hinted at our choices when it comes to relationships mattering more than ever for this book.
 * The summary for the third chapter was also released on this same day.
 * On June 25, 2018, a sneak peek for Lina's bio was released across various social media platforms and Adam's bio was released on Instagram.
 * On June 26th, 2018, a blog post revealed that the series would have the same relationship system as Endless Summer. It was also revealed that this would be the first time the MC could be considered the villain of a Choices story.
 * It premiered on Wednesday, June 27, 2018, and was being billed as the 10th season of this reality TV show within the Choices universe.
 * Coincidently, this was also the same date that the 20th season of Big Brother in the U.S. premiered.
 * On October 29, 2018, it was confirmed that the book would wrap with its 20th chapter being published on Wednesday, October 31, 2018.
 * On September 4, 2019, PB released the official soundtrack for this series.
 * On September 13, 2019 PB shared a behind-the-scene playlist of America's Most Eligible.

Trivia

 * It was strongly implied that this story has 10 love interests who are also your fellow competitors, if correct, this makes this story the book with the largest amount of love interests.
 * After each contestant is eliminated, they fade away from the Season 10 Cast poster; this seems to be paying homage to America's Next Top Model, which follows the same process when a contestant is eliminated.
 * In a premium scene in Chapter 8 of Veil of Secrets, America's Most Eligible was mentioned by Kate. She told your character that they will binge watch the last season of America's Most Eligible once she gets out of the hospital.
 * Chapter 4 shares the same title as It Lives Beneath, Chapter 6, "All Hands on Deck".
 * In Chapter 6, if Your Character joins Derek and the Handsome Stranger in the hot tub and picks to ask them about their favorite show, they both say The Crown & The Flame.
 * Your Character admits he/she just started watching it, whereas Derek confesses he binge-watched the first two seasons in a week.
 * The Handsome Stranger for his part doesn't want to hear any spoilers because he is only at the Battle of Wolf's Mouth.
 * Becca Davenport makes a reference to the show in Chapter 3 of The Senior when she says that, "She only throws the remote while watching America's Most Eligible."
 * In Perfect Match, Book 2, Chapter 4, Your Character told Damien Nazario in a flashback, how the show would a thousand times better if the contestants fell down trap doors when they were eliminated.
 * With 20 chapters, this is the third longest book in Choices, after The Royal Romance, Book 3, and Across the Void with 22 chapters respectively, and Rules of Engagement, Book 2, and A Courtesan of Rome, each with 21 chapters.
 * Chapter 20 shares the same title as Big Sky Country, Book 2, Chapter 16.
 * In Chapter 20, Jen's full name is revealed to be Jennifer Espinoza along with the confirmation of her being an official love interest: Your Character can kiss her after claiming the prize and she will also exclaim her love for you.
 * This means that the official love interests for this book are: Handsome Stranger, Beautiful Contestant, Derek, and Jen.
 * A sequel for this series was confirmed at the end of the 20th chapter and it was billed as an All-Stars Edition.
 * According to Mr Gallagher, the studio executive, this season of AME was a disaster, and would have made a loss if it weren't for the conflict between the MC and Ivy.

Click here for the walkthrough for this book: America's Most Eligible: Season 10 Choices.