Anti-Stepbrother

Anti-Stepbrother follows Summer, a college freshman still nursing a years-long crush on her stepbrother Kevin, built on one drunken night she's convinced meant more to him than it did. Kevin, meanwhile, treats relationships as disposable — he has a running policy of never dating anyone for more than six months — and Summer's hopes finally collapse when she catches him with his fraternity brother's girlfriend at a party.

Fleeing the scene, she runs into Caden Banks, one of Kevin's fraternity brothers with a reputation for being cold to freshman girls. Their first exchange goes badly enough that Summer nicknames him "Asshole," but an unlikely friendship develops between them as Summer starts to let go of Kevin and see Caden for who he actually is.

Tijan's novel is a New Adult college romance built around unrequited-crush fallout and a slow shift from rivalry to genuine connection, told with the author's characteristic blend of humor and emotional rawness.