Cleo Summers: Australia's Sweetheart. From the small city of Perth, Australia, she now resides in LA, living the life that many girls could only ever dream of: she's a famous, Hollywood actress.
Beau Jensen: Hollywood's Heartthrob. He's notorious for his charm, his heart-melting smirk, and his handsome, good looks. However, after an altercation at the Golden Globes, he and Cleo don't see eye-to-eye.
Aaron Ames: America's Boy-Next-Door. His boyish good looks and charm are the reason he's the guy that every mother wants her daughter to marry when she grows up. He's also Cleo's best friend.
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Cleo Summers believes she's drawn the short straw when she's paired with gorgeous, but arrogant heartthrob, Beau Jensen, in a film they've both been cast as love-interests in.
But will she learn that there's more to Beau behind the layers of cockiness and arrogance, and discover that there's really a good person underneath it all?
Or will she fall for her previous co-star and best friend, Aaron Ames?
And how will her PR team's decisions affect her feelings for her love interests?
When Cleo's perfect life implodes after a sudden breakup, she hatches a plan to win back her ex by fake-dating the notorious heartthrob in her new apartment building - except the scheme gets complicated when real feelings and mysterious warnings threaten to derail everything.
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Cleo Cassidy's world shatters when her childhood sweetheart unexpectedly breaks up with her, leaving her to rebuild her life from scratch. She's on the hunt for a new apartment, actual friends, and - most importantly - a way to win back her ex. Enter the hot stranger she keeps bumping into in her new apartment building.
The plan? Simple: fake-date the infamous ladies' man to make her ex jealous. How hard could it be?
Step One: Find a cheap new apartment.
Luckily, the one Cleo finds comes with new friends built into the deal, and...some other mysteries. Like, who the hell is the woman that keeps vandalising the bathroom, warning women everywhere to steer clear of the so-called Penthouse Prick?
Step Two: Make ex-boyfriend jealous using fake boyfriend.
Step Three (VERY important): Don't fall for the fake boyfriend.
But as Cleo continues to learn to live without her ex, she realizes that the line between lying and loving is blurrier than she ever realized.