CLARKE TAYLOR seems to have it all—Popularity, beauty, money, and to top it off, she’s Summerville High’s head cheerleader, but there’s one thing she’s still missing—The Prom Queen crown. You’d think it would be easy for a picture-perfect blonde to win a plastic tiara, right? But with Clarke, nothing is as it seems. Despite her exterior persona, Clarke is a secret nerd with raging social anxiety, but she is determined to win Prom Queen to prove her former bullies wrong. She develops a foolproof plan to win the crown, but to do it, she must appeal to everybody, including a group she has desperately been trying to avoid—The outcasts.
Enter ELLIOT KELLER, a misfit repeating his senior year who wants nothing more than to graduate and get out. When the two of them have a chance meeting in detention, it’s hate at first sight, but Elliot holds the key to the one group she can’t crack. In a desperate attempt to claim the crown and escape the weight of being popular, Clarke proposes a deal: she’ll do his assignments if he agrees to fake date her in order to boost her morale with the outcasts and provide relief from her shallow friends.
But what happens when the line between real and fake begins to blur? What happens when her friends start to question her popularity? Will Clarke sacrifice the crown for her heart?