Growing up, Joanna Pricket was bullied for being the tallest and heaviest girl in her school.
For years, she tried to make herself feel smaller by slouching and hugging herself at the waist to hide her height and body. No one dared hang out with Giant Joanna.The social outcast.
But not anymore.
The first year of High School, she came in with a bang. No longer self loathing, she embraced confidance like an old friend. Now, owning her height and working her newly slimmed curves, her commanding presence demanded immediate attention.
When Senior Year comes around, she's the most popular, envied, admired and wanted girl in the school.
She relishes in the limelight and is even considered the school Princess. But all those years of torment had changed her, making her less the person she wanted to be and more the person she hated. She was, in a word, a bitch.
She realizes this when she meets Jacob Abercrombie.
Closet-poet and aspiring film editor, the last thing Jacob expected was to get her Royal Highness as his partner for their English report. Her prickly attitude was, at first, startling. Although, after seeing little hints of the good person that Jo can occasionally be, he's determined to remind her and the rest of the school that her thorns are just for show, and that on the inside, she's as sweet as a pineapple.
Josephine Pryce will do anything to get out of Lakeville even if it means simply tutoring her arch-nemesis Flynn Cauley. Except when it comes to him, things aren't always simple.
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Jo and Flynn couldn't be any more different than they already are. She's an uptight, type 1 diabetic and captain of the debate club and he's a notorious womanizer with a devil-may-care attitude and seemingly nothing to worry about. But now he needs help with English and she needs money for college. So regardless of the existent feud between them, she accepts to be his tutor in her school's online peer-tutorship program.
But things aren't that straightforward when it comes to him. A misconception and desperation later, they decide to become a fake unlikely couple, solely because Flynn needs to make his crush jealous and Jo needs her ex to understand that it's over. Besides, she's partly in love with the hot, gentlemanly school paper president and the only way he'll notice her, is if she somehow becomes popular. Everything will be fine as long as they follow the rules. But then again, rules are meant to be broken.
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