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The Art & Science of Making Guy Friends (& What to do When They Fall in Love)

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Aria DeLang is cursed with three things: crippling social anxiety, Sasquatch height, and clothes that don't fit right. Basketball is the only place she feels normal. That's where she discovers her ticket out of lonerville-mastering the art of making guy friends. 

"Actual"guy friends aren't just biding their time until they can get in your pants. In fact, the thought doesn't even cross their minds, but you know what does? Sports, sex with "actual" girls, food, and maybe WWII. Aria successfully infiltrates the male mafia through trickery, a diabolic formula, and by exploiting their shared love for the game of basketball. 

Things were going pretty great until Taylor Arroyo and Roscoe Tate, the Princes of Pepperwood High, crash her best friend's pool party. That's when Aria unwittingly breaks her #1 rule: "Do not remind your guy friends that you're a potential mate." That means: No sexual innuendos or behaviors. Show them as little skin as possible, you want to hide in plain sight.

But the damage is done. Suddenly, they can't unsee what's been under their noses since elementary school: Aria DeLang is a GIRL?!?!?!

When she shows up for school the next day, the delicate balance between her and the male ecosytem has been broken and she can't figure out why. 

As Aria learns to wield her newfound power over the men in her life, she must fight to restore the balance before it's too late. There's just one problem with that-what do you do when you catch feelings for two Princes of Pepperwood? 


[This is Book 1 in the Art & Science of Making Guy Friends Series.]


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