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☆ A slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romance.

"Tell me," he insisted. "How come you are that person? How does the quiet girl in the back of the class write...well, all that?"

"See? This!" I shoved at his chest, but he didn't budge. "This is exactly why I never want to be around you. This is the kind of shit you pull. You just get into everyone's business."

"C'mon, blondie," he murmured, the nickname making my skin prickle. "We both know we can't get rid of each other."

"Yeah, sure. That's why you got into my business and stole my phone?"

"I didn't steal it," he said, "It was on the porch railing outside. I was out for a cigarette and found it. But your business is my business now. So, you have to help me, and in exchange..." He tapped the side of his nose. "I can keep your little secret."

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Eighteen-year-old Lena Hart has two lives. At school, she's invisible: quiet, average, the girl who fades into the noise. Online, she's "NoFilter," the anonymous voice behind Midnight Confessions, a blog where she posts brutally honest takes on high school life, from the hypocrisy of popularity to the heartbreak of being unseen.

The blog explodes overnight after a post goes viral about a guy who "makes girls fall in love just to prove he can." That guy? Noah Reed - he's not the student council heartthrob yet - but he's got the smile, the smirk, and the bad-boy charm to fake it, and he is the reason half the school checks her blog daily.

When Noah discovers that Lena is NoFilter at her best friend's birthday party, he doesn't out her. He makes a deal. She'll hang out with him for a few weeks, so he can improve his "bad boy" image before college applications are sent out. In return, he'll keep her secret.

But the more time they spend together, the more Lena realizes Noah isn't who her posts made him out to be. And the more he reads her words, the more he sees her in ways that feel dangerously real.

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