Penelope Featherington has a secret: she writes romance novels under a fake name. When one of her novels gets sold to be a major movie, she finds herself reuniting with her high school crush, Colin Bridgerton, who has turned into a major movie star. Colin is fresh off a scandal from punching a photographer for telling lies about his ex-girlfriend, Marina Thompson, and desperately needs Penelope's book for a comeback. Penelope poses as her own writing assistant and lies to Colin, saying that her employer is traveling doing research for her next book. Colin challenges Penelope to help him do a little research of his own...and things get messy when Colin finds out the truth about Penelope and who her book is REALLY about.