How to Fake It
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Last published Sun, May 4, 2025
Frankie Callahanetti has three skills: lying, hustling, and making sure she always looks better than everyone in the room.
When she bluffs her way into the elite halls of St. Dymphna's Academy, she tells herself it's simple: play nice, flirt smarter, marry rich - God willing. Survival first. Emotions later.
She had set her sights on Jace Whitmore-the golden boy, too sweet to scam but far too easy to resist-yet it was Rowan Wu, the one who saw straight through her hustle and hated her for it, who was fast becoming a nuisance she couldn't quite charm away
Frankie's spent her whole life building walls thick enough to keep her heart safe.
But St. Dymphna's isn't a school. It's a battlefield.
And for the first time, the walls might not be enough.
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