When sixteen year old Lily Hart moves to a new country after her mother's messy divorce, the last thing she expects is to fall hard for the one person she definitely shouldn't.
Living under the same roof as her quiet, brooding stepbrother is awkward enough. But things get complicated when she meets his best friend, Jaden Rivera funny, charming, a little reckless, and totally off-limits. Suddenly, late night study sessions, group outings, and family dinners become emotional minefields.
Lily tries to keep her feelings hidden, burying them beneath witty banter and secret journal entries she encrypts in code a coping mechanism she's clung to since her parents' split. But the closer she and Jaden get, the harder it becomes to hide the truth, especially when it seems like he might feel something too.
Torn between loyalty, longing, and the fear of ruining everything, Lily must decide whether to protect her heart or risk it all for a love that was never supposed to happen.
Dramatic, tender, and full of messy teenage emotions, Crush Code is a coming of heart story about forbidden feelings, fresh starts, and the brave leap into the unknown.
"Come on Austin. Please delete the video!"
"No way." He smirks, "That'll be too easy."
"What do you want from me?"
"I need you to be my fake girlfriend."
"What! No way in hell."
"Fine then I'll just send this to everyone in school."
"Okay fine I'll do it," I roll my eyes and he smirks, "but there's rules."
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Emma Princeton(18 years old) is a normal teenage girl except she's lost a lot and has a shocking past that only a few people know about. She's not a nerd, although she gets good grades, she has a lot of friends but she's not one of the "populars".
Austin King(also 18 just a couple months older), the schools bad boy. The top one in the "populars" group. He's known for dating girls for a day or two then breaking their hearts and tossing them to the side. Never thinking about them again.
But what happens when Emma finds herself in a situation where Austin has a certain leverage over her and needs a fake girlfriend that's presentable to his mother and not one of his usual flings?
What happens when Emma agrees, will they fall in love? Or will he just use her and break her heart like all the other girls that he's dated?
There's a thin line between love and hate.