I Kissed Shara Wheeler

Chloe Green has one plan for senior year: win valedictorian at Willowgrove Christian Academy in small-town Alabama, then leave for good. Her main rival, principal's daughter and prom queen hopeful Shara Wheeler, kisses her and then vanishes weeks before graduation, leaving behind a trail of cryptic notes and puzzles.

Chloe soon learns Shara kissed two other people before she disappeared: her boyfriend, star athlete Smith Parker, and her brooding neighbor Rory Heron, who has long been in love with her. The three have nothing in common but the notes, so they form an uneasy alliance and chase clues through parties and break-ins.

As the secrets of the town start coming out, Chloe has to look again at the place she has been counting the days to escape, and at how she feels about the girl who started it all. Casey McQuiston's first young adult novel is a funny, fast queer rom-com with a mystery at its center.