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It's the winter of 1985 in Hawkins, Indiana. The Starcourt Mall is ashes, the town is healing, and Nancy Wheeler is officially done with boys. Burying herself in investigative journalism to numb the pain of the past, she's built a wall that no one can climb. But her brother Mike has a problem: he's forbidden from taking Eleven to the Snow Ball unless his "difficult" older sister has a date too.
Desperate, Mike strikes a secret bargain with Gareth, the rebellious drummer of the Hellfire Club. For fifty bucks, Gareth must charm the uncharmable Nancy Wheeler. The plan is simple: Gareth gets funding for his band, and Mike gets his night out.
But between late-night poetry sessions in the library and the raw energy of a punk-rock anthem, the line between the act and the heart begins to blur. When the truth explodes under the neon lights of the Snow Ball, Nancy is left to wonder if a bought romance can ever be real.
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