Avery Lexington is the kind of girl people put on pedestals - polished, driven, always smiling. But under the perfect surface, she's cracking. When her overbearing parents pressure her to bring her (fake) boyfriend to an elite donor scholarship gala, she panics... and asks Calvin "Cal" Golding, a tattooed, guarded, emotionally unavailable athlete, to play the part. He says no. Then yes. What starts as a one-night lie slowly unravels into a year-long arrangement that neither of them can explain away. As the fake dating stretches across seasons, their rules blur. Avery's control slips. Cal's walls crack. And somewhere between homecoming weekends, late-night confessions, and fights that cut too deep - they become real. But real love doesn't come without consequences. And both of them are hiding things that could burn it all down.
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