Pretty Reckless

Penn Scully grew up poor, and his twin sister Via, a gifted ballet student, was the person closest to him. Daria Followhill grew up wealthy and popular, and at All Saints High she is known as the ice queen. Years ago, something Daria did started a chain of events that ended with Via running away from home. Penn has never forgiven her.

In senior year, Penn loses his home. The Followhills take him in as their latest charity case, so he ends up living across the hall from the girl he blames. He sees an opening for revenge and means to use it, to show the spoiled princess that she does not rule the way she believes she does.

Daria has her own plan. She wants to win back the boy she once befriended, and the hostility between them slowly turns into heat. This is a contemporary romance for adult readers, built on an enemies-to-lovers dynamic, and it opens the All Saints High series by L.J. Shen.

Secrets and betrayals sit under every scene they share. The question is whether anything real can grow between two people who start out wanting to hurt each other, once Via's absence is still between them.