You Said I Was Your Favorite by Monica Murphy (Paperback)

Daisy Albright has perfected the art of going unnoticed. The groundskeeper’s daughter drifts through Lancaster Prep like mist—quiet, studious, invisible to most. Except one. He sees her. In class, in the halls, buried in romance books she pretends no one notices. Daisy keeps her head down, but her world shifts when she’s forced into close quarters with the boy everyone warns her about.

He’s the reckless Lancaster. Wealthy, popular, notorious for trouble he barely tries to avoid. One mistake on the first day of term earns him a punishment he never saw coming—working in the headmaster’s office alongside Daisy, the girl who shouldn’t tempt him yet somehow becomes all he can think about. Her smile disarms him, her kindness cuts through his bravado, and soon even her shyness feels like something sacred he wants to protect.

Their connection grows behind closed doors, in stolen laughter and lingering glances, while the rest of the school draws battle lines around them. She’s the scholarship girl, he’s Lancaster royalty, and everyone has an opinion. Friends disapprove. Parents object. Daisy’s father stands guard like a wall he’s determined to break through.

But obsession moves quickly, and desire demands bravery. He wants Daisy—fully, openly, without apology. If the world won’t accept them, he’ll face it head-on. Because for him, Daisy isn’t just the girl no one sees.

She’s the one he can’t look away from.