New Adult Romance
Status: Complete, unpublished
Genre: NA romance
Spice Level: sweet/no-spice/clean
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, fake dating, sworn off relationships, opposites attract, falling in love with the wrong person, playboy/player, sports
Smiles, Boyfriends, and Other White Lies
Won Honorable Mention in the 2017 Utah Original Writing Competition!
A clean college romance for younger new adult readers. In this opposites-attract, enemies-to-lovers romance, a girl sworn off relationships dates a playboy to get her trust fund—but she might lose out on real love when she neglects to tell him their relationship’s fake.
Twenty-one-year-old Lauren McCoy is done with dating. She’s determined to study abroad, but her marriage-obsessed mother won't hear of it—or give her access to the trust fund she needs to pay for the trip. Maybe if Lauren were in a relationship, her mother would be easier to sway.
It feels like fate when Conner Hicks enters Lauren's life—he's the perfect cover, a convenient boyfriend who flirts but avoids commitment.
However, when Lauren discovers more to Conner than the casual fling, her escape across the ocean may destroy the relationship she'd planned to throw away.
This book was sold for publication in 2018, but the publisher subsequently had financial problems and canceled the contract.