A swoony, banter-filled, and deeply heartfelt story about childhood sweethearts who find themselves caught in a high-stakes game of pretend. When Dani Collins returns to her hockey-obsessed hometown, she’s shocked to find her former nerdy best friend, Alec Barczewski, has transformed into the town’s golden-boy hockey star. To solve their respective problems Dani needs a standout extracurricular for her Harvard reapplication, and Alec needs to repair his reputation for NHL scouts the two strike a deal to fake date. As they navigate the icy social dynamics of their small town, they soon realize that the line between “fake” and “forever” is thinner than they ever imagined

Nothing Like the Movies by Lynn Painter is the highly anticipated, incredibly charming, and emotional sequel to the smash-hit Young Adult rom-com Better Than the Movies.

Picking up where the first book left off, this entry transitions from the sweet, nostalgic innocence of high school into the messy, high-stakes reality of freshman year at college. It is a brilliant, laugh-out-loud look at how real-life love stories rarely follow a perfect Hollywood script.