Henny Quinn

“Pretend to be my boyfriend.” It was the most ridiculous thing Ryan Smith had heard since transferring to Asherville High. Cassie McCutcheon spent three years loving Troy Scott, the golden boy everyone adored. Behind their perfect relationship was a girl slowly disappearing, holding on to someone who had already stopped caring. Then Troy dumped her in front of the entire school. Cassie refuses to give him the satisfaction of seeing her fall apart. So when the new guy—confident, reckless, and impossible to ignore—agrees to play her fake boyfriend, she takes the deal. One goal: make Troy jealous and survive the fallout. There’s just one problem. The more convincing they get, the harder it is to remember none of it is real. Staged dates turn into late-night conversations. Pretend touches start to linger. And Ryan, who swore he’d never want her, starts falling anyway. But Troy isn’t ready to let go. Cassie isn’t as over him as she pretends. And Ryan is hiding a past that could ruin everything. Pretending to love someone is easy. Trusting them is something else entirely.