Noticed

Kinsley Evans has a talent for disappearing.

After a string of mistakes she'd rather forget — the kind that were serious enough to uproot her entire life and send her to a new school mid-adolescence — she has spent the last year at Bainland High perfecting the art of invisibility. Head down. Grades up. No drama, no distractions, no repeating the past. With university on the horizon and her parents' trust still fragile, her plan for her final year is simple: be nobody, excel at everything, and get out unscathed.

The plan has one flaw. A delicious, dangerous, deeply inconvenient flaw.

Every evening, after the textbooks are closed and the homework is done, Kinsley writes. Not essays. Not study notes. Fiction — the kind that would make her literature teacher blush and her parents pass out entirely. Published quietly under a pen name, her growing catalogue of erotic novels exists in a world entirely separate from the sensible, studious girl she plays at school. No one knows. No one even looks at her long enough to wonder.

Then Jud Collins notices her.

Bainland's most wanted, most watched, and most devastatingly distracting student decides — for reasons Kinsley cannot begin to fathom — that she is worth his attention. Suddenly, the girl who built her life around being overlooked has a name on everyone's lips. People see her now. They talk about her, watch her, want to know her.

And that is precisely when one of her books goes viral.

As whispers of the scandalous "porn book" sweep through the halls of Bainland High, Kinsley finds herself in an impossible position — fighting to protect a secret identity while standing directly beneath a spotlight she never asked for. She can handle the gossip. She can handle the pressure. What she isn't sure she can handle is keeping the truth from the one person who, against every careful calculation she has ever made, she actually wants to let in.