The Boyfriend App

When Public Corporation, a giant tech company, announces a contest for the best app developed by a high school student—with $200,000 in prize money—computer whiz Audrey McCarthy is all in. Audrey's been searching for her one ticket out of town ever since her dad died and her best friend, perfect and popular Blake Dawkins, turned into her worst nightmare—and this scholarship may be it.

Audrey comes up with an idea so simple, yet so brilliant, she can't believe it hasn't been done before: the Boyfriend App. With a simple touch of the screen, romance blooms among the unlikeliest couples at school—and people start to take notice. But it's not quite enough.

To beat out the competition, Audrey will have to dig deeper—right into a scandal that would rock Public to its core. Launched into unexpected fame and passionately kissed by the hottest guys in school, Audrey finds that her invention has thrown her life into complete chaos . . . but can it bring her true love?

• Ex-Best-Friends-to-Enemies: Audrey’s former best friend Blake is now her biggest rival, both in the tech contest and for social survival. This one’s personal.
• High School Romance: Between dodging her nemesis and debugging her app, Audrey gets kissed by the most popular guys in school. But is any of it real if an algorithm is making the match?
• Coding for Girls: A brilliant teen programmer enters a life-changing competition to code her way out of her small town and into her dream college.
• Cinderella with a Tech Twist: Armed with a laptop instead of a glass slipper, Audrey builds an app that could change her life—or crash and burn, taking all her secrets with it.