Summer Skyes

"What flowers should I get you?"

"White lilies," she says, "Because you, my darling, will be the death of me."

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Valerie Hudson navigates senior year with both eyes closed. After moving cross-country with her mother and brother, she finds herself juggling a crush on her brother's new friend and a fake relationship with the most popular boy at school.

Summer Skyes has always been the repressed goody two shoes who attended Bible study every week. At least that's where her parents think she is. After starting college she's not so sure she likes boys anymore.

Alex Johnston is kissing the boy from the swim team. But he's also the star quarterback in a very conservative town where being gay could jeopardize his life. So he proposes a deal with the new girl who has never really fit in anywhere: to be his girlfriend in exchange for popularity.