First published 2024
Nora never meant for anyone to hear it. One unguarded conversation with friends, one video that spreads across Valley U, and suddenly everyone on campus knows she wants to climb quarterback Felix Walters like a tree. Including Felix himself. For a girl who built her whole college life around staying invisible, the attention is a nightmare made real. Eyes follow her everywhere. She becomes the punchline in every group chat. Then Felix does something she never expected: he shows up and proposes a deal. Six weeks of pretending to date, for reasons he keeps close to his chest. Nora has to decide whether playing fake girlfriend to the hottest player on campus is worse than being the girl everyone is laughing at. She says yes. What follows is the slow, uncomfortable business of spending real time with someone you already have real feelings for, while pretending none of it counts. The closer they get, the harder the pretense becomes. Nora started as a wallflower with an accidental crush. Now she has to figure out what she actually wants before the six weeks run out.
Genres: fiction, contemporary, contemporary-romance, college-romance, new-adult-romance, romantic-comedy
Vibes: emotional, engaging, humorous, intimate, lighthearted, romantic
Tropes: fake-dating, forced-proximity, hidden-feelings, slow-burn-romance
Setting: Valley U
298 pages · Paperback · Rebecca Jenshak