"I haven't heard from either of them since then but after that I knew, I knew that I couldn't trust anyone again. I had been betrayed by the man I thought I loved and my best friend that I had known for as long as I could remember. Therefore, I am where I am today. No friends, deep in my fiction books, trying to just hide away from the world."
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Hyun-Ae, an incredibly shy girl, has kept to herself ever since she caught her now ex-boyfriend, Kyung-il, cheating with her best friend. She had lost hope in others and therefore had decided from then on, that she can trust no one but herself.
A year later, going into her second year of college, Hyun-Ae has not opened up to anyone, afraid of being hurt once again. She instead escapes from reality and almost always has her nose in a book, refusing to face the world in front of her and to deal with real people.
However, when the 7 most popular guys in school take an interest in her, her life is turned upside down. What will happen when they continue to pester her to talk to and hang out with them? Will she be able to open up to them, allowing her to trust someone again? And what will happen when she starts to have feelings for Jin, the oldest of the group? Find out, in Hyun-Ae's exciting story about the 7 idiots who change her life.
Henley agrees to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for a fee, falling in love as she wonders - how is he involved in her brother's false conviction?
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Henley Linden's brother is in jail for a crime he didn't commit, and she'll take any job to raise the money needed to free him. Soon, she's agreed to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for ten thousand dollars, so his mother will ease up the pressure on him to find a wife. But once Henley is enmeshed in Bennett's world, he falls for her, and she starts to have feelings for him as well. Despite her romance with Bennett, as she grows closer to the Calloways, Henley realizes they are somehow involved in her brother's conviction. Journeying deeper into a world of wealth and conspiracies, Henley is forced to rely on Bennett, though doing so could cost her everything.
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