Aria Matthews is in love with her best friend, Lucas Miller. It is the best kept secret since Area 51 and she knows she would take it to the grave. But things start changing in her senior year of high school when another of her friends takes it upon herself to set Aria up with the captain of the football team, who, incredibly, seems to be interested in her as well. And she doesn't understand why Lucas suddenly grows a stick up his butt about the whole dating deal. Sometimes it just takes a nudge to knock down years of carefully laid plans like the blocks of a Jenga tower. And sometimes, just sometimes, deeper and darker secrets are waiting to be exposed. Content and/or trigger warning: Sexual references and mentions of sexual abuse 🥇1st place in the Hearts Awards - Teen Fiction 🥇1st place in the Inclusive Watty Awards - Teen Fiction 🥇1st place in the Massive Awards - Best Cover 🥇1st place in the Prime Awards - Young Adult 🥇1st place in the Acamia Awards - Best story 2022 🥇1st place in the 2023 Gloria Regali Awards - Best Blurb 🥇1st place in the The Lovely Valentine Awards - Teen Fiction 🥇1st place in the Ocean Blue Awards - Romance 🥇1st place in the Ocean Blue Awards - Best Prologue and Best Storyline 🥇1st place in the Quidditch Awards - Teen Fiction

Peyton Wright was the human embodiment of perfection: she was beautiful and from a rich family, and a model. Of course, this earned her the title of the "it" girl at school. However, her popular life catches up with her when her grades begin to slip from missing too many days from skipping school, and the only way to get them to rise is from peer tutoring someone else. Noah Alexander was the human embodiment of... weird. She had no social life and wore shabby clothes that consisted of only oversized sweaters and beanies. Noah's future is on the line as she attempts to pass her classes in hopes to win a competitive scholarship, but it proves harder than she imagined. What happens when the most popular girl begins tutoring the school's outcast?