Play it Straight
“Rule #1: Don’t fall for the roommate. Rule #2: Seriously, don’t fall for the roommate.”
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After an incident that shattered her confidence, Phoenix wants nothing more than to disappear. So, when her twin brother makes her a crazy, bizarre but deliciously sinful offer, she slips on a uniform and takes her place as his twin ‘brother’ at Harrison Park Academy — a chance to restart and feel in control, just until she feels okay again.
But HPA has its own rules—and none of them account for bathroom phobias, shared dorms, or accidentally locking eyes with your ridiculously attractive new roommate.
Justice is intense, loyal, and way too perceptive for her comfort. Worst of all? He’s the one person she can’t seem to avoid… or stop thinking about. He’s just irritating enough to make her blood boil. But he’s also kind in the quietest ways, and she’s falling, fast.
Now Phoenix is navigating locker room close calls, midnight showers, secret crushes, late-night parties with their sister all-girls’ school across the lake and an escalating rivalry between the athletes and the academic elite. Her lies are stacking higher than her jump shots, and with each game, the stakes get heavier.
Everyone thinks she’s just another boy chasing a spot on the team. But she’s playing for more than victory.
She’s playing to feel like herself again.
She’s playing to forget what happened last year.
And if anyone finds out who she really is, it won’t just be her cover that’s blown— it’ll be her entire world.
Phoenix is one step away from getting exposed. And when you’re living a lie?
One wrong move is all it takes to lose the game.
How long can she keep playing it straight?