"What I'm basically asking you is, will you be my girlfriend, Evie?" "No! What! How is me being your girlfriend meant to help your problems?" "Obviously not real. I don't date, I don't love, and I don't believe in love. But for you, I'll have to show I love you. I'll have to take you out on dates, and once people see that I'm actually falling in love with a woman, no one will hate me anymore. They will finally leave me the fuck alone because I'm in a relationship. And, well, you owe me,"

When pretending becomes the most honest thing you've ever done. Eloise Mayer never liked Lando Norris. In fact, she barely tolerated him. Arrogant, reckless, and annoyingly magnetic, he's everything she can't stand-on and off the Formula 1 grid. But after one drunken mistake turns into a media scandal, they're forced into a fake relationship to save their reputations... and their careers. Now, she's stuck pretending to love the one person she'd happily crash into at 200 mph. What begins as staged hand-holding and fake smiles slowly unravels into stolen glances, buried feelings, and heartbreak neither of them are ready to admit. As the season stretches on, so does the lie-and somewhere between the podiums, press conferences, and long nights spent not sleeping, Eloise starts to wonder if the only thing she's faking is how much she hates him. But in a world built on image and speed, love is the one thing they can't control. #9 - breakup #9 - landonorris

Hayden and Chase were best friends up to the age of seven. Then, Chase moved away to California. The summer going into senior year, Hayden is invited to stay at Chase's house. But, the two of them soon see they barely know each other anymore and time has changed them. And they see that reconnecting with each other isn't just sunshine and butterflies. A coming of age novel full of love and heartbreak, deceit, and accepting the past, Hayden and Chase are reshaped for the rest of their lives.

Tess isn't really sure when the feelings she has for her childhood best friend began to bloom, but they did. And now she's been saddled with the dilemma of not only having feelings for her childhood best friend, but also having feelings for her childhood best friend while said childhood best friend who happens to be in a loving relationship already. Though, she does have to admit, his strange friend has begun to catch her eye. ••••