In this delightfully charming teen spin on Youâve Got Mail, the one guy Bailey Rydell canât stand is actually the boy of her dreamsâshe just doesnât know it yet.
Classic movie buff Bailey âMinkâ Rydell has spent months crushing on a witty film geek she only knows online by âAlex.â Two coasts separate the teens until Bailey moves in with her dad, who lives in the same California surfing town as her online crush.
Faced with doubts (what if heâs a creep in real lifeâor worse?), Bailey doesnât tell Alex sheâs moved to his hometown. Or that sheâs landed a job at the local tourist-trap museum. Or that sheâs being heckled daily by the irritatingly hot museum security guard, Porter Rothâa.k.a. her new arch-nemesis. But life is whole lot messier than the movies, especially when Bailey discovers that tricky fine line between hate, love, and whatever-it-is sheâs starting to feel for Porter.
And as the summer months go by, Bailey must choose whether to cling to a dreamy online fantasy in Alex or take a risk on an imperfect reality with Porter. The choice is both simpler and more complicated than she realizes, because Porter Roth is hiding a secret of his own: Porter is AlexâŠApproximately.