Lessons In Faking (Hall Beck University)

Athalia Pressley would rather fail statistics than spend five minutes with Dylan McCarthy — too bad her grade, and her family, depend on him.

After years of painful distance from her twin brother Henry, Athalia is desperate for a way back in. So when a brutal stats class lands her with an unexpected tutor — Hall Beck University's golden boy and Henry's sworn enemy — she expects awkward sessions and bad vibes. What she doesn't expect is Henry suddenly showing up in her life the moment Dylan McCarthy is in it.

The solution is obvious, if completely mortifying: fake a relationship with the most insufferable man on campus to keep her brother close. Dylan is arrogant, annoyingly charming, and everything Henry can't stand. He's also, somehow, the only person who makes Athalia feel like herself again.

Their arrangement has rules. Strict ones. No catching feelings. No blurred lines. Absolutely no meaning it when they kiss.

Rules, it turns out, are much easier to write than to keep.

Set against the backdrop of college parties, cramped study rooms, and one very complicated family dinner, *Lessons in Faking* is a sharp, swoon-worthy romantic comedy that proves the most dangerous lies aren't the ones you tell other people — they're the ones you tell yourself. When the fake starts feeling painfully real, Athalia has to decide what she wants more: her brother's approval, or the one person she was never supposed to fall for.