A feel-good, refreshing contemporary YA romance from debut author Page Powars that follows a trans boy who starts at a new school and joins a boyfriend borrowing service masquerading as an Italian Club to prove that he´s one of the boys.
When sixteen-year-old Noah Byrd starts fresh at a new school, he has the perfect plan to ensure the students see him as his true gender: join the school´s illustrious [and secret] Borrow a Boyfriend Club, where members rent themselves out to their classmates for dates. The endless "slip-ups" that plagued him before will be old news once he establishes himself in the club.
Unfortunately, he fails the questionably rigorous interview process. Desperate, he strikes a deal with the club´s prickly but attractive president, Asher-Noah will help lead the nearly-bankrupt club to victory at the school´s popular talent show, and Asher will allow him to demonstrate his boyfriend skills in a series of tests that include romancing Asher himself.
If Noah can´t help the club´s members win the show, their whole operation shuts down, squashing his best chance at showing the whole school that he´s "boy enough." But if Noah succeeds in securing the club their victory, he still loses. Because the most important, unbreakable rule of the Borrow a Boyfriend Club is simple: no real boyfriends (or girlfriends) allowed.
And as long as the Borrow a Boyfriend Club is still standing as high as Asher´s man bun, they can never explore the feelings growing between them.