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Gianna Ellery has always lived between lines-too invisible for the popular crowd, too polished for the misfits. Childhood taught her early that the world isn't kind to soft girls, especially not fat, anxious ones. Even now, years after shedding the baby fat and shrinking into a new body, she still feels like the same fat girl from middle school. The one picked last, laughed at quietly, and never quite welcome anywhere. That kind of shame lingers, no matter how much you change.
With senior year speeding by and college application season looming, NYU feels more like a wish than a plan. Gia takes a part-time job at a dusty little record store to ease her growing fear of debt.
She expected quiet shifts and maybe the occasional scratched-up Norah Jones vinyl.
She did not expect Jace Montgomery.
He's everything she usually avoids-popular, unreadable, devastating in a way that makes her nervous. He's also her coworker. And somehow, annoyingly, not what she thought he'd be. As their shifts stretch on, so does the strange feeling pulling them closer-one she's not sure she can trust.
Especially when William Carrington, her old middle school crush with golden-boy charm and perfectly timed smiles, starts showing up again.
Gia doesn't believe in main characters, and she definitely doesn't think love is for girls like her. But maybe-between the cracked records and late-night inventory-she'll find out the world's a little bigger than Lindenvale. And maybe even she belongs in it, too.
Disclaimer: Jace looks better in my head than he does on the book cover, I just haven't managed to generate a version that does him justice. Also, this book was created with significant help from AI. I provide the ideas, and it helps shape them into words.