Jackpot, you guys. This is exactly what I've been looking for from my romance reading. Sweet, swoony, real-but-not-too-real. It's no surprise that it came from Courtney Milan, since I've heard such good things about her. 
 Tina Chen is a struggling undergrad who spends all of her spare time working to support her family. Blake Reynolds, son of the founder of Cyclone Systems, shares a class with Tina and gets into an intense debate with her about food stamps. Tina challenges him to swap lives with her, that he has no idea what her life is like. (Yeah, just go with it.) A trade is made and so their lives are inextricably connected for the rest of the semester. Part of the trade involves having Tina pretend to be Blake's girlfriend so she can gain access to the top-secret Cyclone development. (Cyclone isn't Apple, as Courtney points out in her post-book note, but it's not NOT Apple, if you know what I mean.) Fake relationships and life swaps? Count me in. Blake and Tina have more in common than they previously thought and there's an undeniable attraction between the two. 
 Tina and Blake both felt very real to me and their struggles were not downplayed in the slightest. Tina stresses so much about money and her family. Blake has his own issues, what with the pressure to take over for his dad and lingering grief from the death of a close friend. He's got another tragic problem, but I won't spoil it here because I thought the handling of it was really quite lovely. Tina and Blake both have immensely complicated/loving relationships with their parents and that's what hooked me. It was so true to life to have a couple of twenty-somethings working through their parental stuff. Despite the insane set-up, the story never felt contrived. (Okay, maybe near the end, but the circumstances surrounding the ending were genuinely interesting and surprising.) 
 Best of all, Tina and Blake get a sequel. I'm sold.