Played By My Best Friend Novel

Kate is a senior in high school who has led a sheltered life, protected by Alex, one of the school's popular boys and her guardian angel. This protection has allowed her to maintain her innocence, naivety, and gullibility throughout her middle and high school years. Alex frequently shares stories about his romantic encounters, exposing Kate to the complexities of dating and relationships from a distance. Though Kate isn't entirely naive, she understands intellectually that boys can be trouble. However, understanding something in theory proves vastly different from experiencing it firsthand. As the saying goes, emotions cannot be controlled by logic alone. During her final year of high school, Kate discovers this truth the hard way. What she thought she knew about relationships and feelings becomes irrelevant when confronted with real experience, forcing her to navigate unfamiliar emotional territory and learn lessons that can only come through direct experience.