Felix Ever After meets Becky Albertalli in this swoon-worthy; heartfelt rom-com about how a transgender teen's first love challenges his ideas about perfect relationships. * A 2022 ALA Rainbow Booklist Selection * A Junior Library Guild Selection * Noah Ramirez thinks he's an expert on romance. He has to be for his popular blog; the Meet Cute Diary; a collection of trans happily ever afters. There's just one problem-all the stories are fake. What started as the fantasies of a trans boy afraid to step out of the closet has grown into a beacon of hope for trans readers across the globe. When a troll exposes the blog as fiction; Noah's world unravels. The only way to save the Diary is to convince everyone that the stories are true; but he doesn't have any proof. Then Drew walks into Noah's life; and the pieces fall into place: Drew is willing to fake-date Noah to save the Diary. But when Noah's feelings grow beyond their staged romance; he realizes that dating in real life isn't quite the same as finding love on the page. In this charming novel by Emery Lee; Noah will have to choose between following his own rules for love or discovering that the most romantic endings are the ones that go off script.