Hers on Paper: A Sapphic Fake-Dating Romance

Josie Brennan works the counter at Marnie's Diner, studies on a scholarship she can't afford to lose, and has spent all semester quietly in love with sweet, oblivious Nora. So when Nora leaves her university jacket on a chair at a party, Josie does the bravest thing she's ever done: she slips an anonymous love note into the pocket.

There's just one problem. The jacket isn't Nora's.

It belongs to Margot Aldridge, the coldest, richest, most untouchable girl at Carroway University. And she catches Josie red-handed, in front of half the party and in front of her ex.

Now the whole campus thinks the diner girl wrote a love letter to Margot Aldridge. Margot sees a way to make her ex jealous. Josie sees a way out of the humiliation, and a way closer to Nora. So they strike a deal on a diner napkin: fake dating, strictly for appearances, until Homecoming.

Nobody believes it. Not their friends, not the campus gossip account, and certainly not Margot's father, who invites Josie to dinner at the family's Greenwich estate to put her in her place.

But when Margot stands up for her across that table, the rules start to blur. When the deadline passes, they're both still pretending. Only now they're pretending it isn't real.

And Josie's scholarship carries the Aldridge name.

Hers on Paper is a closed-door sapphic campus romance with fake dating, a rich girl / working-class girl pairing, an ice queen who melts for exactly one person, and a guaranteed happily ever after.