Must Date the Playboy

Victoria “Tori” Peige is the shy, bookish heiress of Prestige Hotels. She attends an exclusive private school in New York City, where she is known as Miss Goody-Goody. Her best friend, Chloe, is a fashion designer’s daughter, and Chloe’s boyfriends keep leaving her. Tori believes the cause is Zachary Anderson, the school’s most notorious playboy. He is also the heir to a rival business empire, and his family has a long-running feud with hers.

To protect Chloe, Tori comes up with a risky plan. She will walk up to the guy she can’t stand and ask him to be her boyfriend. If Zach is busy with a “girlfriend”, he’ll leave Chloe’s love life alone. She has to fake feelings for him, and he is arrogant, teasing and infuriating.

Real feelings start to creep into the fake relationship. As they spend more time together, lies and secrets pile up, along with jealousy, friends caught in the middle, and the rivalry between their parents. The story ends with a two-day trip to Mexico, where Tori and Zach try to forget everything and be who they were before the truth came out.

It’s a school-set, enemies-to-lovers romance with a fake-dating hook, written in Tori’s first-person voice. It began as a Wattpad story by “notjustarandomgirl” and was later printed by Pop Fiction/Summit Media. It’s the first in a trilogy, followed by Must Hate the Playboy and Must Love the Playboy.