The Boyfriend List is a 2022 Contemporary Romance Writers Stiletto Finalist!

My name is Maegan Murphy, and I have a big problem. I made a list of names of every boy I have ever crushed on. And that list just got out and plastered all around school.

Maegan Murphy is a tenth grader at Porter’s Creek High School. The quiet, nerdy girl who wears science-themed graphic T-shirts, posts TikTok videos about frogs, and likes to hang out in the school library reading books. The shy, awkward girl with two left feet who is prone to having monumentally embarrassing accidental mishaps; something Maegan blames on her last name, Murphy. As in Murphy’s Law, the adage that states: “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” And Maegan’s biggest Murphy’s Law mishap of all? The Boyfriend List.

While waiting for her best friend, Noah Ramsey, one morning before school, Meagan makes a list. But not any list—a secret list of the names of all the boys she has ever had a crush on written in glitter pen ink and decorated with flower and heart doodles. A list she creates in a moment of feeling sorry for herself because she feels like she’s the only girl in school who has never had a boyfriend. Has never been kissed. Has never found that special someone who sees her and not the awkward, weird sister of her older, very popular brother and star pitcher of the varsity baseball team, Braedan.

Maegan doesn’t realize it yet, but that dreaded Murphy’s Law she feels cursed with may just give her what she has always wanted. And it all begins with an accidental hallway collision into Grayson Ramsey, Noah’s very cute older brother, a wayward half-eaten apple core that hits Christian Alexander in the back of the head at lunch, spilled spaghetti, and The Boyfriend List. The list with all the names of the boys she has ever liked; names that include Christian Alexander and Noah Ramsey. The list she swears she put in her backpack but absolutely, positively cannot find. The list that suddenly appears taped onto every locker and on every wall at school the next morning. The list that changes everything.

The Boyfriend List is a sweet YA rom-com that will have you laughing and falling in love at the same time.

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