The Upside of Falling

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Seventeen-year-old Becca Hart no longer trusts the idea of true love, but an impulsive lie leaves her claiming to have a secret boyfriend. Brett Wells, the popular football captain who has concentrated more on his future than on dating, overhears her and unexpectedly volunteers for the role. Their arrangement should solve both teenagers' immediate problems, yet performing a convincing relationship is difficult when they barely know one another. Public dates and invented affection gradually expose the upheavals each has kept private, blurring the boundary between strategy and genuine attachment. The contemporary romance uses its fake-dating premise to test whether two guarded teenagers can recognize honest feeling while managing the expectations that made pretense attractive in the first place.

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