Buzzer Beaters & Bad Ideas

Fake dating should have been the easiest play of the season.

Talia Ward has a plan for everything: lead Northwood's basketball team, protect the program's future, and keep her own carefully guarded ambitions under control.


June Han was never part of that plan.


She's funny, unpredictable, impossible to ignore-and tired of being treated like the reliable sixth player instead of someone who deserves a place in the starting lineup. When an almost-kiss between Talia and June goes viral and sends ticket sales soaring, the school sees an opportunity to save the struggling girls' basketball program.


The solution? Pretend they're dating.


Staged appearances and carefully negotiated rules should keep everything under control. Instead, every practice, photograph, and almost-honest conversation makes it harder to remember where the performance ends. But with scholarship pressure, family expectations, and the entire school watching, one mistake could cost them far more than a game.


Buzzer Beaters & Bad Ideas is a witty, heartfelt young adult sapphic romantic comedy about fake dating, girls' basketball, first love, and learning when to take the shot-and when to trust someone else with the ball.