NOTE: This is a sample. The first three chapters are available for reading only. Sometimes even the best-laid plans are meant to be broken... Emma Breyer has always been the 'ugly duckling' - the one no one sees. Fed up, she decides to make a plan to finally become the person she wants to be. She is shocked when the plan works! Finally, she has it all - the blond hair, fake lashes, fabulous job and gorgeous boyfriend. But then she hits a little snag - in the form of a beautiful brooding artist. Griffin is everything she is NOT looking for. But he's the only one who seems to truly see her and not just the person she's pretending to be. Now, she must choose between the perfect life she so carefully planned, and the one she has accidentally stumbled into. If you enjoy THE FIVE-YEAR PLAN, please check out my other stories here on Wattpad! Thanks so much for reading!

Lyra Kennedy joins the cast of Dating Democracy, a reality show where she's paired with the handsome Andrew - but she has eyes for bad boy Patrick. ***** Lyra Kennedy lost her job, her dog passed away, and her boyfriend of 2 years just dumped her. In a moment of weakness, her mom talks her into applying for "Dating Democracy", a reality dating show where contestants are paired up by audience voting. All too soon, Lyra's on a flight to LA, during which she meets a handsome stranger and mourns that she's stuck on the show instead of chasing after him. When the show starts however, she finds out the brooding stranger, Patrick, is another contestant. Instead of being paired with him, Lyra is assigned the handsome, kind, Andrew Hastings. As the show goes on, and things heat up, Lyra finds herself torn between two handsome, strong, passionately different men. Will she choose the charming small town hunk, Andrew, or the irresistible bad boy Patrick? And when her indecision leads her to pursue both of them, how much of her temptation will the world see on TV? [[Watty 2018 Winner]] [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]]