The Boy I Pretended to Love

Serena Cho has been in love with Ethan Hale for four years. He is popular, rich, captain of Metro High's basketball team, and still treats her like his sweetest, safest friend.

This year, Serena plans to change that.

Her senior-year goals are simple: become student-body president, win a prestigious scholarship, and finally make Ethan fall for her. But everything goes wrong when Asher Vale, her arrogant academic rival, discovers the private notebook containing her secret ambitions, calculated friendships, and embarrassing plans for Ethan.

Asher offers her a deal. Serena will help repair his damaged reputation, and he will become her fake boyfriend long enough to make Ethan jealous.

Their contract has rules. No private pet names. No unnecessary kissing. Absolutely no jealousy.

Breaking them should have been the difficult part.

Instead, Serena must survive a ruthless school election, basketball games, parties, gossip, revenge, friendship drama, and a love triangle between the boy she has always wanted and the enemy who sees the real girl behind her perfect smile.

The relationship may be fake, but the flirting, heartbreak, and feelings are becoming dangerously real.

A humorous slow-burn high-school romance featuring fake dating, enemies to lovers, first love, friendship, misunderstandings, teen drama, and one ambitious girl who is about to discover that hearts cannot be organized like campaign plans.