Ruthless Rejection

Ruthless Rejection is the second book in P.H. Nix's Edgewood Academy Elites series, picking up where Twisted Selection left off at the Edgewood Fall Formal. Ariah's life has already been upended since moving to town and discovering that much of what she believed about her family was a lie. Now she's pulled deeper into the school's secret society power games, forced to navigate a "game" with real consequences in order to protect her younger siblings while her parents are absent.

Both of Ariah's parents, Aaron and Seline, are drawn further into the story in this installment, and the truth about them becomes a central plot point. Meanwhile, the school's heirs continue competing for Ariah's attention and loyalty, and the Queen Bee of Edgewood is determined to see her fail — leaving Ariah to figure out whether any of the boys pursuing her have honest motives, or whether she's headed for a ruthless rejection of her own.

A dark, slow-burn "why choose" high school romance that escalates the secret-society intrigue introduced in book one.