Simon & Schuster Love Goes Viral

An aspiring pop star crafts a fake relationship with a small-town boy to rehab her image, until her ex and her real feelings get in the way in this sweeping romance perfect for fans of Lynn Painter. Love Thompson went viral. Now she has it all—fifty million followers, brand deals, a Hollywood address, and the fast track to the music career she’s always dreamed of—until…she doesn’t. After Love takes the blame for her influencer boyfriend’s mistake, the fallout goes more viral than the video that rocketed her to fame.By the next morning, she’s already lost sponsorships, ten million followers, and her debut single.Love needs to rehab her image, and that means dating someone a little more homegrown. Enter Austin Grey. Austin is about as homegrown as it gets. His only followers are the regulars at his family’s struggling diner that he’s doing his best to save.But everything changes when he gets a DM from a star he never expected to cross paths with again. When Love walks back into Austin’s life, she thinks this is a purely online scheme with an expiration date.But as genuine feelings start to develop that keep them coming back to each other again and again, will either of them be willing to take a chance on something real?