Damien Devereux knows how to play a role. He's spent years perfecting the art of becoming someone else, but lately, Hollywood's favourite actor is struggling to keep his own life from falling apart. His latest movie is already getting backlash before its release, an anonymous account won't stop posting things about him, and with a career-defining franchise hanging in the balance, Damien's carefully guarded image is starting to crack. Adeline Pierson knows how to sell a story. The music sensation has spent the last six months being linked to four different men, earning herself a reputation as the girl who collects hearts and leaves them behind. The truth is nothing like the headlines. But trying to explain that to millions of people while her new album is only three months away from dropping? Not exactly easy. They both need to fix things before everything falls apart. And that's when PR steps in. Their managers come up with a solution that sounds simple enough: fake date in the public eye for three months. Until Addie's album drops. Until Damien's movie releases. Just long enough to clean up their reputations and give everyone something new to talk about. Become Mr. and Mrs. Perfect...just for a while. It's supposed to be easy. A few dates. A few photographs. A few convincing kisses for the cameras. Nothing real. But fake kisses start feeling a little too honest. Staged dates become the only nights they actually look forward to. And somewhere between the flashing cameras and whispered confessions, the line between pretending and wanting starts to disappear. They have three months to convince the world they're in love. The problem? They might only need three weeks to convince each other.

At Rutherford Academy, power, prestige, and perfection rule - and Asher Kingston has always looked like he was made for all three. Head Boy, football star, effortlessly composed, he's the kind of guy people assume has everything under control. He doesn't. When threatening messages from his ex start crossing a line he can't ignore, Asher finds himself needing something he's never really had before: help. Specifically, a fake girlfriend convincing enough to make it all stop. Vivian Romano is the last person he should ask, and somehow the only one he can. Head Girl, soft spoken but quietly strong, and the kind of person people trust without really knowing why, Vivian has spent years keeping things steady, simple, and far away from unnecessary drama. Agreeing to fake date Asher Kingston definitely counts as unnecessary drama. She says yes anyway. The rules are clear: it's temporary, it's pretend, and it stays uncomplicated. But between early morning routines that turn into shared walks, whispered conversations that last a little too long, and meeting versions of each other that no one else seems to notice, the line between real and fake starts to blur in the most inconvenient way. Because it turns out the hardest part isn't pretending to be together. It's figuring out when it stopped feeling like pretending at all.