The Contract Summer

Eighteen-year-old Tara Redfield has just earned a spot in an elite summer art program when she catches her secret boyfriend cheating. Humiliated, she blurts out the perfect revenge lie: basketball captain Paxton Thorne is her new boyfriend. There’s only one problem—they’re not dating. Tara offers him money, Paxton needs it for his mother’s medical bills, and a six-rule fake-dating contract is born. But after he moves into her house, staged romance turns dangerously real. When their contract is exposed in front of the entire school, Tara and Paxton lose everything they were pretending to protect—and must decide whether their summer romance was ever fake at all.