Like You Hate Me

Xavi comes back to town two years after the death of his best friend, Katy, and starts his freshman year of college living with her older brother, Nate. Nate, a college basketball player, has never forgiven Xavi and blames him for what happened to Katy. He wants Xavi gone. Under one roof, the hostility between them keeps turning into something neither can walk away from.

Like You Hate Me is a college-set, enemies-to-lovers M/M dark romance and the first book in Bethany Winters' Hawthorne University series. It builds on the pair first met in the Anti-Valentine anthology and carries a heavy thread of grief and guilt alongside the heat.