Influencer With Benefits

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She’s the internet’s favourite soft girl. He’s the internet’s favourite thirst trap. The only rule was: keep it professional. They break that rule on night three.

Jordan Lee runs a small but devoted “soft girl reads” Instagram — 180,000 followers who trust her for book recommendations, mental health check-ins, and the kind of radical vulnerability that makes strangers cry on their morning commute. She’s warm, honest, and hasn’t let anyone past her defenses since her ex told her that her feelings were “too much” and her platform was “cute but not a real job.”

Riley Sharp is a fitness influencer with 1.2 million followers, a body that breaks the internet on a weekly basis, and a loneliness so deep he’s forgotten what it feels like to be seen past the abs. His comments section is feral. His DMs are a disaster. The last woman he dated wanted “Riley Sharp, the brand” and had zero interest in the man who gets panic attacks in crowded rooms and reads Wikipedia articles about space at 2 a.m.

When a wellness brand pairs them for a six-week social media campaign, the internet ships them before they’ve finished their first coffee. The comments say JUST DATE ALREADY. The fan accounts analyze their shadows. The hashtag trends in fourteen countries.

The problem is: the internet is right.

What starts as a brand deal becomes a friendship becomes a friends-with-benefits arrangement becomes the most authentic thing either of them has ever experienced — on camera or off. She teaches him that reading is cool and being soft isn’t weak. He teaches her that wanting to be wanted isn’t something to be ashamed of. And somewhere between the margin notes and the stretching mat and the adobo recipe he hasn’t cooked in three years, they fall in love in a way that no algorithm can optimize and no filter can improve.

Then a strategic photograph with a fake geotag threatens to destroy everything — not because it’s true, but because it touches the wound that Jordan’s been carrying since her ex, and the wall goes up before Riley can reach her.

Influencer With Benefits is a 97,000-word high-heat contemporary romance featuring a bookish soft girl who’s afraid of being wanted and a thirst trap who’s afraid of being known. Contains: explicit content, a man who annotates romance novels and cries at the good parts, the best French press coffee in literary history (it’s terrible), matching vulnerability videos, one iconic trench coat scene, and a guaranteed happily ever after built from margin notes and the radical, terrifying, unspeakably brave act of staying soft.

You’ll love this if you enjoy: Emily Henry’s banter, Hannah Grace’s heat level, Abby Jimenez’s emotional depth, Ali Hazelwood’s workplace tension, and BookTok heroes who read.