*Wattys 2018 Winner / Hidden Gems* CREATE YOUR OWN MR. RIGHT Weeks before Valentine's, seventeen-year-old Kate Lapuz goes through her first ever breakup, but soon she stumbles upon a mysterious new app called My Dream Boyfriend, an AI chatbot that has the ability to understand human feelings. Casually, she participates in the app's trial run but finds herself immersed in the empathic conversations with her customizable virtual boyfriend, Ecto. In a society both connected and alienated by technology, Kate suspects an actual secret admirer is behind Ecto. Could it be the work of the techie student council president Dion or has Kate really found her soulmate in bits of computer code? She decides to get to the bottom of the cutting-edge app. Her search for Ecto's real identity leads Kate to prom, where absolute knowledge comes with a very steep price.

Ella has her senior year planned out. She would be the first student government president to run a successful eventful year, not getting involved in notorious drama happening in school, and making it into her dream university, but that plan begins to unravel when a new student arrives to school. Being the best student representative, she is asked to help him get a feel of his new environment, but when she discovers William's true reasons for coming to the school, she is put into a position that could either bring the two closer together, or make her expose his secret.