Rules for Breaking Hearts
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Last published Thu, May 8, 2025
Eighteen-year-old Maya Solis doesn't believe in love-only data. After surviving her own humiliating breakup, she launches a senior-year sociology project: date five guys from five different social groups, record the patterns, and prove once and for all that love is just an illusion wrapped in hormones and wishful thinking.
To keep herself safe, she writes the Rules for Breaking Hearts:
o Thirty days max per guy.
o No second chances.
o Never catch feelings.
o Break it off before they do.
full honesty in her journal-Maya is sure she can keep things under control.
Then there's Jace Callahan, her older sister Astra's perfect, untouchable boyfriend. He's not part of the experiment. He's just supposed to be background noise. But when he starts challenging her theories on connection, Maya begins to question the rules she wrote for everyone else-and the ones she thought protected her from getting hurt.
As the blog Rules for Breaking Hearts starts anonymously leaking her private journal entries, Maya's project-and her life-begin to spiral. Lines blur. Secrets slip. And the one person she can't fall for might be the one she's already falling too hard for.
Some rules are meant to be broken.
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