Sixteen-year-old Jenny has been waiting for her real life to start. She's always stood on the sidelines, surrounded by her three best friends, but a promise to herself sophomore year and one small decision tosses her into a new world filled with high school parties, popularity, and, best of all, her first love. But not everyone is so happy with Jenny's success and a betrayal she never saw coming threatens to end her new love and destroy the life she's worked so hard for. Jenny is certain she knows who betrayed her, but will she be able to prove it? It will take cleverness, courage, and skirting the law with her adventurous friends to try and prove her innocence and save her reputation and her future. Crushes Over Papercuts is a young adult novel set in the mid-1990s at a time when cameras on phones couldn't record everything, gathering information couldn't be aided by a quick Google search, and rumors were harder to prove or disprove. At its heart is a story of a young girl discovering how her choices and actions can have consequences, good and bad, beyond her wildest imagination and how first love and the power of true friendship can save a life.