The Boyfriend Between Us

She faked the amnesia. She didn't fake falling for him.

When Clara Bennett wakes up on the ice after a collision at the championship game, everyone assumes she's lost her memory.

She hasn't.

She remembers every second — including the moment her secret boyfriend of one year looked toward another girl before saying the word tied up and walking away.

So when his best friend, Ethan Sterling — hockey captain, school legend, the boy who has given her exactly three sentences in three years — steps forward and says I'm her boyfriend, Clara makes a decision.

She's going to let him.

What starts as a plan to uncover the truth about Jax Maddox quickly becomes something Clara didn't bargain for: mornings in an unfamiliar kitchen, a sketchbook worn at the corners, and a boy who takes the floor so she can have the bed. A boy who argues for her work when she won't argue for herself. A boy who has, it turns out, been paying attention for a very long time.

But Ethan has a secret too. And when it surfaces — in the form of a photograph kept for three years and a question he never got to ask — Clara will have to decide what she actually wants. Not what she'll settle for. Not what's safe.

What she wants.

The Boyfriend Between Us is a swoony, emotionally gripping YA romance about a girl who learned to make herself invisible — and the boy who never stopped seeing her.

For readers who love slow-burn fake dating, art and identity, and heroines who discover their own worth one quiet decision at a time.